dialogue的词源

英文词源

dialogue (n.): early 13c., "literary work consisting of a conversation between two or more persons," from Old French dialoge, from Latin dialogus, from Greek dialogos "conversation, dialogue," related to dialogesthai "converse," from dia- "across" (see dia-) + legein "speak" (see lecture (n.)).

Sense broadened to "a conversation" c. 1400. Mistaken belief that it can only mean "conversation between two persons" is from confusion of dia- and di- (1); the error goes back to at least 1532, when trialogue was coined needlessly for "a conversation between three persons." A word that has been used for "conversation between two persons" is the hybrid duologue (1864).

dia-, 穿过，相互。-log, 说，词源同lecture, travelogue. 即人与人之间的对话，交流。

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词根词缀： dia-分离 + -logu-说话 + -e → 两人之间的谈话 → 对话