kaleidoscope的词源
英文词源
- kaleidoscope
- kaleidoscope: [19] Greek kalós meant ‘beautiful’ (it was related to Sanskrit kalyāna ‘beautiful’). It has given English a number of compound words: calligraphy [17], for instance, etymologically ‘beautiful writing’, callipygian [18], ‘having beautiful buttocks’, and callisthenics [19], literally ‘beauty and strength’. The Scottish physicist Sir David Brewster used it, along with Greek eidos ‘shape’ and the element -scope denoting ‘observation instrument’, to name a device he invented in 1817 for looking at rotating patterns of coloured glass – a ‘beautiful-shape viewer’.
=> calligraphy, callisthenics - kaleidoscope (n.)
- 1817, literally "observer of beautiful forms," coined by its inventor, Scottish scientist David Brewster (1781-1868), from Greek kalos "beautiful" (see Callisto) + eidos "shape" (see -oid) + -scope, on model of telescope, etc. They sold by the thousands in the few years after their invention, but Brewster failed to secure a patent.
Figurative meaning "constantly changing pattern" is first attested 1819 in Lord Byron, whose publisher had sent him one of the toys. As a verb, from 1891. A kaleidophone (1827) was invented by English physicist Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) to make sound waves visible.
中文词源
1816年,苏格兰物理学家大卫·布鲁斯特爵士发明了万花筒。这种仪器只需要轻轻转动即可从中看到各种不同的美妙图案，因此布鲁斯特将其命名为kaleidoscope，由希腊语kal（美丽的）+eidos（形状）+scope（观测仪器）构成，意思就是“可以观察到美丽图案的仪器”。
kaleidoscope：[kə'laɪdəskəʊp] n.万花筒，千变万化
kaleidoscopic：[kəlaɪdə'skɒpɪk] adj.千变万化的，万花筒似的
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：kaleidoscope 词源，kaleidoscope 含义。
由其发明者19世纪苏格兰科学家David Brewster根据希腊语合成的一个词，来自希腊语kalos,漂亮的，词源同calligraphy,eidos,形状，词源同idol,-scope,看，词源同telescope.比喻义千变万化，持续改变。
万花筒是英国物理学家布儒斯特( Sir David Brewster，1781 - 1868)于1816年前后发明，18）7年取得专利权。其英语名称kaleidoscope是由希腊语kalos‘beautiful’（美丽的），eidos‘form’（形状），再加上英语组合语素-scope（观察仪器）三部分组成的。其实后一部分-scope也源自希腊语：skopein‘to look at’（看）。因此kaleidoscope词本身含有“可以窥见美丽图案的仪器”之意。
