discern的词源

英文词源

discern

discern: [14] Discern, discreet, discrete, and discriminate all come ultimately from the same source, Latin discernere, literally ‘separate by sifting’, hence ‘distinguish’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘apart’ and cernere ‘sift, separate’ (source of English crime and secret and related to crisis).

The derived noun discrīmen formed the basis of a new Latin verb discrīmināre, from which English gets discriminate [17]. (Closely related is decree [14], whose ultimate source is Latin dēcernere ‘decide’, also a derivative of cernere but with the prefix dē-, denoting removal.)
=> certain, crime, crisis, decree, discreet, discrete, discriminate, excrement, secret

discern (v.)

late 14c., from Old French discerner (13c.) "distinguish (between), separate" (by sifting), and directly from Latin discernere "to separate, set apart, pide, distribute; distinguish, perceive," from dis- "off, away" (see dis-) + cernere "distinguish, separate, sift" (see crisis). Related: Discerned; discerning.

中文词源

discern：识别

dis-, 分开，散开。-cern, 分开，词源同concern, certain. 即分散开，识别。

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

discern：辨别，识别；认出，发现

来源于拉丁语动词cernere(判断,区分)的复合词dis.cernere(筛选,区分)。

词根词缀： dis-分离 + -cern-判断,决定