descend的词源
英文词源
- descend
- descend: [13] Etymologically, descend means ‘climb down’. Like its opposite, ascend [14], it comes ultimately from Latin scandere ‘climb’, which also produced English scan and scansion and is related to echelon, escalate, scale ‘set of graduated marks’, scandal, and slander. The Latin verb was a product of the Indo-European base *skand- ‘jump’.
=> ascend, echelon, escalate, scale, scan, scandal, slander - descend (v.)
- c. 1300, from Old French descendre (10c.) "descend, dismount; fall into; originate in," from Latin descendere "come down, descend, sink," from de- "down" (see de-) + scandere "to climb," from PIE root *skand- "jump" (see scan (v.)). Sense of "originate" is late 14c. in English. Related: Descended; descending.
中文词源
de-, 向下。-scend, 爬，上升，词源同ascend, scan.即爬下，下降。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：descend 词源，descend 含义。
descend：下来，下降；(代代)相传，传下来
词根词缀： de-下降,向下 + -scend-攀爬
