descant的词源

英文词源

descant: descant: [14] Etymologically, descant is a parallel formation to English part song. English acquired it via Old French deschant from medieval Latin discantus ‘refrain’, a compound noun formed from the prefix dis- ‘apart’ and cantus ‘song’. The notion originally underlying it is of a separate vocal line ‘apart’ from the main musical theme. The Middle English form of the word was deschaunt; descant represents a partial 16th-century reversion to Latin discantus.
=> canto, chant
descant (n.): late 14c., from Old North French descant (Old French deschant), from Medieval Latin discantus "refrain, part-song," from Latin dis- "asunder, apart" (see dis-) + cantus "song" (see chant). Spelling was partly Latinized 16c. Originally "counterpoint."
descant (v.): mid-15c.; see descant (n.). Sense of "to comment at length" is first attested 1640s.

des-, 分开，散开，同dis-. -cant, 唱，吟唱，词源同chant, cantata. 原义为对唱，对和，后指高于主旋律的曲调。

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