chimney的词源

英文词源

chimney

chimney: [14] Greek kámīnos meant ‘furnace’ (it was related to kamárā ‘vaulted room’, source of English camera and chamber). It was borrowed into Latin as camīnus, from which the adjective camīnātus ‘having a furnace, oven, etc’ was derived. By late Latin times this had become a noun, camīnāta, which passed into Old French as cheminee, and thence into English. The original meanings ‘fireplace’ and ‘stove’ persisted until the 19th century, but already in Old French the sense ‘flue’ had developed, which was finally to win out.
=> camera, chamber

chimney (n.)

late 13c., "furnace;" early 14c., "chimney stack of a fireplace;" late 14c., "fireplace in a residential space;" from Old French cheminee "fireplace; room with a fireplace; hearth; chimney stack" (12c., Modern French cheminée), from Late Latin (camera) caminata "fireplace; room with a fireplace," from Latin caminatus, adjective of caminus "furnace, forge; hearth, oven; flue," from Greek kaminos "furnace, oven, brick kiln." Jamieson [1808] notes that in vulgar use in Scotland it always is pronounced "chimley." Chimney sweep attested from 1610s, earlier chimney sweeper (c. 1500).

中文词源

chimney：烟囱

来自拉丁短语camera caminata. camera室，同chamber. caminus, 拉丁词，炉灶，冶铁炉。

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chimney：烟囱，烟筒 

希腊语kaminos(火炉)被拉丁语借用为caminus,派生了形容词caminatus(有火炉的)。在后期拉丁语中变化为caminata,经古法语cheminee进入英语。从“火炉”演变为“烟筒”的意义，在古法语中已经发生。希腊语中的kaminos(火炉)和kamara(带拱顶的建筑或房间)是同源关系。

同源词：camera, chamber