international的词源
英文词源
- international (adj.)
- 1780, apparently coined by Jeremy Bentham from inter- + national. In communist jargon, as a noun and with a capital -i-, it is short for International Working Men's Association, the first of which was founded in London by Marx in 1864. "The Internationale" (from fem. of French international), the socialist hymn, was written 1871 by Eugène Pottier. International Date Line is from 1910. Related: Internationally.
中文词源
inter-,在内，在中间，相互，national,国际的。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：international 词源，international 含义。
这个最普通不过的英语单词谁都知道前缀inter-加根词nation(国家)再加后最-al构成。据有关资料，该词系应该哲学家边沁（Jeremy Bentham,1748-1832）于1780年所杜撰。他还造了maximize(增加到最大限度),minimize(缩小到最小限度)以及其他一些以-ize结尾的广告词。
词根词缀： inter-中间,之间,相互 + -nat-生 + -ion名词词尾 + -al形容词词尾
