diaper的词源
英文词源
- diaper
- diaper: [14] The notion underlying diaper is of extreme whiteness. It comes ultimately from Byzantine Greek díaspros, which was a compound formed from the intensive prefix diaand áspros ‘white’. (Aspros itself has an involved history: it started life as Latin asper ‘rough’ – source of English asperity – which was applied particularly to bas-relief on carvings and coins; it was borrowed into Byzantine Greek and used as a noun to designate silver coins, and their brightness and shininess led to its reconversion into an adjective, meaning ‘white’.) Díaspros appears originally to have been applied to ecclesiastical vestments, and subsequently to any shiny fabric.
When the word first entered English, via medieval Latin diasprum and Old French diapre, it referred to a rather rich silk fabric embellished with gold thread, but by the 16th century it was being used for less glamorous textiles, of white linen, with a small diamond-shaped pattern. The specific application to a piece of such cloth used as a baby’s nappy (still current in American English) seems to have developed in the 16th century.
=> asperity - diaper (n.)
- mid-14c., "fabric with a repeated pattern of figures," from Old French diaspre "ornamental cloth; flowered, patterned silk cloth," perhaps via Medieval Latin diasprum from Medieval Greek diaspros "thoroughly white," or perhaps "white interspersed with other colors," from dia- (see dia-) + aspros "white."
Aspros originally meant "rough," and was applied to the raised parts of coins (among other things), and thus was used in Byzantine Greek to mean "silver coin," from which the bright, shiny qualities made it an adjective for whiteness. Modern sense of "underpants for babies" is continuous since 1837, but such usage has been traced back to 1590s. - diaper (v.)
- late 14c., "to put a small, repeated pattern on," from Old French diaprer, variant of diasprer, from diaspre (see diaper (n.)). Meaning "to put a diaper on" (a baby) is attested by 1951. Related: Diapered; diapering.
中文词源
英语单词diaper来自希腊语diaspros，由dia（跨越、完全） aspros（白色、银币的白色光芒）组合而成，字面意思就是“纯白色的”。在法语中，这个词变成了diaspre，指的是一种绣有菱形图案的精美白色布料。进入英语后，拼写变为diaper，原本指的是一种白色棉布，因为这种棉布柔软且吸水力强，故常常被用作小孩尿布。后来，美国人就用diaper一词来表示“尿布”，但在英国，尿布被称为“nappies”，可能是napkin（餐巾）的指小形式。
diaper：['daɪəpə] n.尿布，vt.给……换尿布
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：diaper 词源，diaper 含义。
来自希腊语diaspros, 白色的，dia-, 穿过，-aspros, 白色。原指一种半透明的织物材料，后用来指尿布。
