couple的词源

英文词源

couple: couple: [13] The notion underlying couple is of ‘joining’. The noun came into English via Old French from Latin cōpula ‘tie, connection’. This was a compound noun formed from the prefix com- ‘together’ and the verb apere ‘fasten’ (source of English apt, adapt, adept, and inept). Derived from it was the verb cōpulāre, source of English copulate [17].
=> adapt, adept, apt, copulate, inept
couple (v.): c. 1200, from Old French copler, from cople (see couple (n.)). Related: Coupled; coupling.
couple (n.): late 13c., from Old French cople "married couple, lovers" (12c., Modern French couple), from Latin copula "tie, connection," from PIE *ko-ap-, from *ko(m)- "together" + *ap- "to take, reach." Meaning broadened mid-14c. to "any two things."

来自co-,强调，-ap，连接，匹配，见apt,copula.

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

来源于拉丁语中由前缀com-(共同,一起)和动词apere(系紧,栓牢)组成的复合词copula(连接,系)的派生词copulare。

归于词根-apt-(适合,适应)。