corvette的词源

英文词源

corvette (n.): 1630s, also corvet, from French corvette "small, fast frigate" (15c.), perhaps from Middle Dutch korver "pursuit ship," or Middle Low German korf meaning both a kind of boat and a basket, or from Latin corbita (navis) "slow-sailing ship of burden, grain ship" from corbis "basket" (Gamillscheg is against this). The U.S. sports car was so named September 1952, after the warship, on a suggestion by Myron Scott, employee of Campbell-Ewald, Chevrolet's advertising agency. Italian corvetta, Spanish corbeta are French loan-words.

可能来自拉丁词corbis, 篮子，来自PIE*sker, 转，编织，词源同crown, cradle. -ette, 小词后缀。词义由篮子引申为船，最后指战舰，小型护卫舰。

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