computer的词源

英文词源

computer (n.): 1640s, "one who calculates," agent noun from compute (v.). Meaning "calculating machine" (of any type) is from 1897; in modern use, "programmable digital electronic computer" (1945 under this name; theoretical from 1937, as Turing machine). ENIAC (1946) usually is considered the first. Computer literacy is recorded from 1970; an attempt to establish computerate (adjective, on model of literate) in this sense in the early 1980s didn't catch on. Computerese "the jargon of programmers" is from 1960, as are computerize and computerization.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A New York Congressman says the use of computers to record personal data on inpiduals, such as their credit background, "is just frightening to me." [news article, March 17, 1968]

词根词缀： com-加强意义 + -put-计算 + -er名词词尾,…者

词义辨异：动词名词 count 点数 counter 计算器compute 计算 → computer 计算机,电脑 calculate 计算 calculator 计算器

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