conquer的词源
英文词源
- conquer
- conquer: [13] Latin conquīrere originally meant ‘seek something out’. It was a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix com- and quaerere ‘seek’ (source of English query, quest, question, inquire, and require). Bit by bit, ‘searching for something’ slid into ‘acquiring it’, including by force of arms: hence the sense ‘vanquish’, already current in the 13th century. The term Conqueror appears first to have been applied to William I of England around 1300.
=> enquire, inquest, query, quest, question, require - conquer (v.)
- c. 1200, cunquearen, from Old French conquerre "conquer, defeat, vanquish," from Vulgar Latin *conquaerere (for Latin conquirere) "to search for, procure by effort, win," from Latin com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + quaerere "to seek, gain" (see query (v.)). Related: Conquered; conquering.
中文词源
con-, 强调。-quer, 追寻，追求，词源同query, question. 词义由追求到战胜。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：conquer 词源，conquer 含义。
conquer：征服，战胜，占领；克服，破除
词根词缀： con-共同 + -quer-寻求 → 共同寻求如果带着武器就成了“征服”
