desire的词源
英文词源
- desire
- desire: [13] The underlying etymological meaning of desire is something of a mystery. Like consider, it comes ultimately from a base related to Latin sīdus ‘star’, but the links in the semantic chain that would lead us back from ‘desire’ to ‘star’ have not all been successfully reconstructed. It does at least seem, though, that before the word denoted ‘wanting’, it signified ‘lack’. English acquired it via Old French desirer, but has also gone back directly to the past participle of Latin dēsīderāre for desideratum ‘something desirable’ [17].
=> consider, sidereal - desire (v.)
- early 13c., from Old French desirrer (12c.) "wish, desire, long for," from Latin desiderare "long for, wish for; demand, expect," original sense perhaps "await what the stars will bring," from the phrase de sidere "from the stars," from sidus (genitive sideris) "heavenly body, star, constellation" (but see consider). Related: Desired; desiring.
- desire (n.)
- c. 1300, from Old French desir, from desirer (see desire (v.)); sense of "lust" is first recorded mid-14c.
中文词源
来自法语，来自拉丁语de sidere, 星星，星辰，词源同consider, sidereal. 来自古代的占星术，通过星辰移位来推测人世变迁，期望星辰按理想的状态运行，引申词义渴望。参照disaster.
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：desire 词源，desire 含义。
来源于拉丁语中与sidus(星)有派生关系的动词desiderare(渴望知道)，经由古法语desirer进入英语。
同源词：consider, considerable, considerate, consideration, considering, desirable, desirous, desirability, sidereal, undesirable
