manoeuvre的词源

英文词源

manoeuvre

manoeuvre: [18] Essentially manoeuvre and manure [14] are the same word. Both go back ultimately to a Latin expression denoting ‘manual labour’. This was manū operārī, literally ‘work with the hand’. It was lexicalized in medieval Latin as the verb manuoperāre, and this passed into Old French as manovrer. Middle English took it over via Anglo-Norman mainoverer as maynoyre or manour, which at first was used for ‘administer land’, and more specifically ‘cultivate land’.

Not until the mid 16th century did the noun manure, denoting ‘dung spread in cultivating the land’, emerge. Meanwhile Old French manovrer developed into modern French manoeuvrer, which English borrowed in the 18th century.
=> manual, manure, operate

manoeuvre

also manoeuver, alternative spelling of maneuver. Also see oe; -re. Related: manoeuvres; manoeuvred; manoeuvring.

中文词源

manoeuvre：调遣，操控

来自法语manoeuvre,调遣，操控，来自拉丁语manu operari,用手操作，来自manu,手，词源同manual,operari,操作，词源同operate.原用于军事术语调兵遣将，后词义通用化。

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manoeuvre：调动，调遣；演习；策略

拉丁语“手工劳动者”的短语为manu operari, 在中古拉丁语中(动词)词汇化为manuoperare,进入古法语为manovrer,现代法语为manoeuvrer,于18世纪被英语借用。古法语manovrer进入盎格鲁-诺曼底语为mainoverer,进入中古英语为maynoyre或manour,意义为“管理土地”、“耕作土地”,16世纪出现为manure,意义为“粪肥撒播于耕作的土地上”。

词根词缀： -man-手 + oeuver

同源词：manure