instrument的词源

英文词源

instrument: instrument: [13] Instrument comes from the same source as instruct: the Latin verb instruere ‘build, prepare, equip, teach’. From it was derived the noun instrūmentum, which meant ‘tool, equipment’. When introduced into English via Old French at the end of the 13th century it was used for a ‘musical instrument’, but the more general ‘implement’ and the metaphorical ‘means’ soon followed in the 14th century.
=> construct, destroy, instruct, structure
instrument (n.): late 13c., "musical instrument," from Old French instrument "means, device; musical instrument" (14c., earlier estrument, 13c.) and directly from Latin instrumentem "a tool, apparatus, furniture, dress, document," from instruere "arrange, furnish" (see instruct). Meaning "tool, implement, utensil" is early 14c. in English; meaning "written document by which formal expression is given to a legal act" is from early 15c.

in-,进入，使，-stru,建造，建设，词源同structure,destruct.引申词义提供的工具，仪器，器械等。后也用于指乐器或法律文件。

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来源于拉丁语中动词in.struere(建设,装备)派生的名字instrumentum(工具,设备),经由古法语进入英语。

词根词缀： in-入,向内 + -stru-建设,结构 + -ment名词词尾