commute的词源

英文词源

commute (v.)

mid-15c., "to change, transform," from Latin commutare "to often change, to change altogether," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + mutare "to change" (see mutable). Sense of "make less severe" is 1630s. Sense of "go back and forth to work" is 1889, from commutation ticket "season pass" (on a railroad, streetcar line, etc.), from commute in its sense of "to change one kind of payment into another" (1795), especially "to combine a number of payments into a single one." Related: Commuted; commuting.

中文词源

commute：通勤往返，代偿

com-, 强调。-mut, 改变，交换，词源同move, mutable. 通常指固定往返于两地的人。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：commute 词源，commute 含义。

commute：经常乘车(或船等)往返于两地，乘公交车辆上下班 

词根词缀： com-共同 + -mut-往来,互换 + -e动词词尾