defame的词源
英文词源
- defame
- defame: [14] The main source of defame (originally, in Middle English, diffame) is Old French diffamer, which came from Latin diffāmāre ‘spread damaging rumours about’, a compound verb formed from the prefix dis-, denoting ‘ruination’, and fāma ‘report, fame’ (source of English fame).
=> fame - defame (v.)
- c. 1300, from Old French defamer (13c., Modern French diffamer), from Medieval Latin defamare, from Latin diffamare "to spread abroad by ill report, make a scandal of," from dis- suggestive of ruination + fama "a report, rumor" (see fame (n.)). Related: Defamed; defaming.
中文词源
de-, 不，非，使相反。fame, 名声。即诽谤，造成不好的名声。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：defame 词源，defame 含义。
-fa-说 → -fam-名声,名誉词根词缀： de-下降,向下 + -fam-名声,名誉 + -e
