condition的词源

英文词源

condition: condition: [14] Latin condīcere originally meant literally ‘talk together’ – it was a compound verb formed from the prefix com- ‘together’ and dicere ‘talk’ (whose base dic- forms the basis of a wide range of English words from abdicate to vindicate, including diction and dictionary). Gradually the idea of ‘talking together, discussing’ passed to ‘agreeing’, and the derived Latin noun conditiō originally meant ‘agreement’. From this came ‘stipulation, provision’, and hence ‘situation, mode of being’, all of them senses which passed via Old French condicion into English condition.
=> abdicate, diction, dictionary, predict, vindicate
condition (n.): early 14c., condicioun, from Old French condicion "stipulation, state, behavior, social status" (12c., Modern French condition), from Latin condicionem (nominative condicio) "agreement, situation," from condicere "to speak with, talk together," from com- "together" (see com-) + dicere "to speak" (see diction). Evolution of meaning through "stipulation, condition," to "situation, mode of being."
condition (v.): late 15c., "to make conditions," from condition (n.). Meaning "to bring to a desired condition" is from 1844. Related: Conditioned; conditioning.

来自法语。con-, 强调。-dit, 说，词源同dictate, dictionary. 字母c脱落比较benefit, benefactor. 原指描述的情况，规定的情况，后指客观情况。

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来源于拉丁语dicere(说,讲)的复合动词condicere(一起谈话),其词义是逐步沿着这样的轨迹变化而来的：一起谈话→同意→条文→状况,方式

即与词根-dic-(说,讲)同源