cushion的词源
英文词源
- cushion
- cushion: [14] Ultimately, cushion and quilt are the same word. Both come from Latin culcita ‘mattress, cushion’, which is related to Sanskrit kūrcás ‘bundle’, and both reached English via rather circuitous routes. In Gallo-Roman (the descendant of Latin spoken in France from the 5th to the 9th centuries) culcita underwent a transformation which produced Old French coissin and cussin, which Middle English borrowed as quisshon and cushin.
The complexity of forms spawned by these was quite staggering – the OED records nearly seventy spellings of the word – but by the 17th century things had settled down, with cushion emerging the winner. Cushy [20], incidentally, is quite unrelated, being a borrowing from Hindi khūsh ‘pleasant’.
=> quilt - cushion (n.)
- c. 1300, from Old French coissin "seat cushion" (12c., Modern French coussin), probably a variant of Vulgar Latin *coxinum, from Latin coxa "hip, thigh," or from Latin culcita "mattress." Someone has counted more than 400 spellings of the plural of this word in Middle English wills and inventories. Also from the French word are Italian cuscino, Spanish cojin.
- cushion (v.)
- 1730s, from cushion (n.). In the figurative sense, from 1863. Related: Cushioned; cushioning.
中文词源
来自拉丁词culcita, 垫子，词源同quilt.
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：cushion 词源，cushion 含义。
cushion：垫子；起缓解作用的东西，防备不时之用的积蓄
经古法语coissin/cussin和中古英语quisshon/cushin,英语cushion和quilt来源于拉丁语culcita(褥垫)。
同源词：quilt
