limousine的词源

英文词源

limousine

limousine: [20] Limousin is a former province of central France. Its inhabitants commonly wore a distinctive style of cloak, and when at the beginning of the 20th century a new and luxurious type of car was designed with a closed passenger compartment and an open but roofed seat for the driver, it evidently struck someone that the roof resembled a Limousin cloak, and so the car was named a limousine. The American abbreviation limo is first recorded from the 1960s.

limousine (n.)

1902, "enclosed automobile with open driver's seat," from French limousine, from Limousin, region in central France, originally an adjective referring to its chief city, Limoges, from Latin Lemovices, name of a people who lived near there, perhaps named in reference to their elm spears or bows. The Latin adjective form of the name, Lemovicinus, is the source of French Limousin.

Modern automobile meaning evolved from perceived similarity of the car's profile to a type of hood worn by the inhabitants of that province. Since 1930s, synonymous in American English with "luxury car;" applied from 1959 to vehicles that take people to and from large airports. Limousine liberal first attested 1969.

中文词源

limousine（豪华轿车）：发明豪华马车的法国利摩日人

单词limousine是法国城市Limoge（利摩日）的形容词，表示利摩日的或利摩日人。据说当地的工匠创造了一种改良后的豪华马车，用固定车顶代替原来的布罩，形成一个更能遮风避雨的封闭车厢。这种豪华马车被称为limousine。汽车出现后，人们就把驾驶座和后座隔开的豪华车称为limousine，简称limo。

limousine：['lmzin; ,lm'zin]n.（大型）豪华轿车

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limousine：豪华轿车

来自法国中部地名Limousin,第一辆limousine轿车产自1902年，因其早期的车厢形式酷似Limousin人带的斗篷而得名。也有一种说法是早期的limousine轿车因其司机位是敞篷的，司机带一个类似Limousin斗篷防雨而得名。比较coach,landau.