column的词源

英文词源

column: column: [15] The notion underlying column is of ‘height, command, extremity’. It comes, via Old French colomne, from Latin columna ‘pillar’, which was probably a derivative of columen, culmen ‘top, summit’ (from which English also gets culminate). It goes back ultimately to a base *kol-, *kel-, distant ancestor of English excel and hill. The word’s application to vertical sections of printed matter dates from the 15th century, but its transference to that which is written (as in ‘write a weekly newspaper column’) is a 20thcentury development.
=> culminate, excel, hill
column (n.): mid-15c., "vertical pision of a page," also "a pillar, post," from Old French colombe (12c., Modern French colonne "column, pillar"), from Latin columna "pillar," collateral form of columen "top, summit," from PIE root *kel- (4) "to project, be prominent" (see hill). Sense of "matter written for a newspaper" dates from 1785.

来自PIE*kel, 伸出，柱子，词源同hill. -mn, 名词后缀。

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它的词根col表“突出”，-u-为连接字母，-mn为名词后缀，相当于-men。记住这个词的关键是把握住其词根的意思，由“突出”引申为“突出的物体”，那就是柱子了。可用它串记同源词excel（优于，胜过），ex表“向外”，cel即“突出”，“比别人突出”即“胜过”。