deliver的词源

英文词源

deliver

deliver: [13] To deliver something is etymologically to ‘set it free’. The word comes via Old French delivrer from late Latin dēlīberāre, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē- and Latin līberāre ‘set free’, a derivative of the adjective līber ‘free’. Its meaning developed through ‘set free’ to ‘give up, surrender’ and finally ‘hand over to someone else’. (Classical Latin dēlīberāre, source of English deliberate [15], is an entirely different verb, derived from Latin lībra ‘scales’.)
=> liberate

deliver (v.)

c. 1200, "save, rescue, set free, liberate," from Old French delivrer "to set free; remove; save, preserve; hand over (goods)," also used of childbirth, from Late Latin deliberare, from de- "away" (see de-) + Latin liberare "to free" (see liberal (adj.)).

Childbirth sense in English, "to bring (a woman) to childbirth," is from c. 1300. Sense of "hand over, give, give up, yield" is c. 1300. in English, which brings it in opposition to its root. Meaning "project, throw" is 1590s. Related: Delivered; delivering.

中文词源

deliver：解救，分娩，交付，投递

de-, 向下，离开。-liver, 自由，词源同liberate, liberation.即解救，拯救，使自由，引申义分娩，交付等。前缀de-在该词词义较抽象。

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

deliver：释放；接生；表达，发表；交付，投递

来源于拉丁语中由前缀de-和基本动词liberare(释放)组成的复合动词deliberare(释放),经由古法语delivrer进入英语为deliver。

词根词缀： de-加强意义 + -liver( = -liber-自由,释放)

deliver：递送；解救；生（孩子）

前缀de-表“远离，脱离”；词根liver和词根liber-相对应，两者是b、v音变关系，表“自由”；它的本义是"set it free，使自由"。自由就是能从一地去往另一地，从而表“递送”；“接生”是把孩子从狭窄的空间解放出来，给予自由。