colonel的词源
英文词源
- colonel
- colonel: [17] Historically, a colonel was so called because he commanded the company at the head of a regiment, known in Italian as the compagna colonnella, literally the ‘little-column company’; hence the commander himself took the title colonnella. The word colonnella is a diminutive form of colonna, which is descended from Latin columna ‘pillar’ (source of English column).
It appears first to have entered English via French in the form coronel, in which the first l had mutated to r. Spellings with this r occur in English from the 17th and 18th centuries, and it is the source of the word’s modern pronunciation. Colonel represents a return to the original Italian spelling.
=> column - colonel (n.)
- 1540s, coronell, from Middle French coronel (16c.), modified by dissimilation from Italian colonnella "commander of a column of soldiers at the head of a regiment," from compagna colonella "little column company," from Latin columna "pillar" (see column). English spelling modified 1580s in learned writing to conform with the Italian form (via translations of Italian military manuals), and pronunciations with "r" and "l" coexisted 17c.-18c., but the earlier pronunciation prevailed. Spanish coronel, from Italian, shows a similar evolution by dissimilation.
中文词源
词源同column, 柱，纵队。即管理一个纵队的军官，通常对应团最高军事长官。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：colonel 词源，colonel 含义。
英语单词colonel (陆军上校）与column (柱子、纵队）拼写很相似，它们其实拥有相同的词源，都来自拉丁语单词columna (柱子、纵队）。英语colonel (陆军上校）来自意大利语单词colonnella，本意就是一个军团中负责指挥一个纵队的军官，在集合时他站在纵队 的最前面。而意大利单词colonnella来自单词colonella(纵队)，最终来自拉丁语columna(柱子、纵队)。
