device的词源
英文词源
- device
- device: [13] A device is something which has been devised – which, etymologically speaking, amounts to ‘something which has been pided’. For ultimately devise and pide come from the same source. The noun device comes in the first instance from Old French devis ‘pision, contrivance’ and latterly (in the 15th century) from Old French devise ‘plan’, both of which were derivatives of the verb deviser ‘pide, devise’ (source of English devise [13]).
This in turn came from Vulgar Latin *dīvisāre, a verb based on the past participial stem of Latin dīvidere, source of English pide. The semantic development by which ‘pide’ passed to ‘contrive’, presumably based on the notion that piding something up and distributing it needs some planning, happened before the word reached English, and English device has never meant ‘pision’.
The sense ‘simple machine’ essentially evolved in the 16th century.
=> devise, pide, inpidual, widow - device (n.)
- late 13c., from Old French devis "pision, separation, disposition, wish, desire; coat of arms, emblem; last will," from deviser "to pide, distribute" (see devise). Sense of "method by which something is pided" arose in French and led to modern meaning.
中文词源
来自devise, 用作名词。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：device 词源，device 含义。
device：装置，设备，仪表；方法，设计
词根词缀： devic(-pis-)分 + -e
