detail的词源

英文词源

detail: detail: [17] Etymologically, a detail is a ‘little piece cut off’. It comes from French détail, a derivative of détailler ‘cut up’. This was a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dé- and tailler ‘cut’ (a relative of English tailor and tally). English acquired the word via the French phrase en détail ‘piece by piece, item by item’, source of the central modern meaning ‘inpidual item, particular’.
=> tailor, tally
detail (n.): c. 1600, from French détail, from Old French detail "small piece or quantity," literally "a cutting in pieces," from detaillier "cut in pieces," from de- "entirely" (see de-) + taillier "to cut in pieces" (see tailor).

Modern sense is from French en détail "piece by piece, item by item" (as opposed to en gros), a commercial term used where we would today use retail. Military sense is 1708, from notion of "distribution in detail of the daily orders first given in general," including assignment of specific duties.
detail (v.): 1630s, from French détailler "cut up in pieces; narrate in particulars," from Old French detaillier, from detail (see detail (n.)). Related: Detailed; detailing.

de-, 向下，强调。-tail, 切，词源同retail, tailor. 即完全切开的，引申义细节。

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

来源于法语中由前缀de-(加强意义)和tailler(切)组成的复合词,其中tailler源于古法语tailleur和通俗拉丁语taliator(切割工具),可追溯至拉丁语talea(切)。

词根词缀： de-加强意义 + tail切,分割 → 切碎,细分

同源词：entail, retail, tally, tail, tailor 词组/短语：in detail (adv.) 详细地