desultory的词源
英文词源
- desultory
- desultory: [16] Latin dēsultor designated a circus trick-rider who jumped from the back of one horse to another while they were galloping along (it was a derivative of dēsilīre, a compound verb formed from dē- ‘down’ and salīre ‘jump’, source of or related to English assail, assault, insult, salacious, salient, and sally). From it was derived an adjective dēsultōrius ‘jumping from one thing to another like a dēsultor’, hence ‘superficial’, and eventually ‘unmethodical, irregular’, the sense which survives in English.
=> assail, assault, insult, salacious, salient - desultory (adj.)
- 1580s, "skipping about," from Latin desultorius "hasty, casual, superficial," adjective form of desultor (n.) "a rider in the circus who jumps from one horse to another while they are in gallop," from desul-, stem of desilire "jump down," from de- "down" (see de-) + salire "to jump, leap" (see salient (adj.)). Sense of "irregular, without aim or method" is c. 1740. Related: Desultorily; desultoriness.
中文词源
在古罗马的骑术表演中，骑师常常同时骑两匹以上的马，从一马背上跃至另一马背上，拉丁语把这种骑师称作desultor，意思是“跳跃者”，等于英语单词leaper。后来该词又被用来比喻反复无常的人或说话无条理的人。英语desultory一词即源于此，表示不连贯的，无条理的。
desultory：adj.断断续续的，散漫的，不连贯的，无条理的。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：desultory 词源，desultory 含义。
de-, 向下，离开。-sult, 跳，词源同salmon, insult. 原指马戏团的驯马师玩把戏从一匹马跳到另一匹马，引申词义随意的。
; desultory 杂乱的 散漫的 不连贯的
该词源于古罗马的骑术表演。骑师在表演时常常同时骑两匹以上的马，从一马背上跃至另一马背上，此类骑师拉丁语称作desultor‘leaper'(跳跃者)。以后该词又被用来喻指反复无常的人或说话无条理的人等。由此派生出形容词desultorius，英语desultory一词即源于此，现作“杂乱的”、“散漫的”、“不连贯的”、“离题的”等义解。
;
