mortgage的词源
英文词源
- mortgage
- mortgage: [14] Mortgage means literally ‘dead pledge’. It comes from Old French mortgage, a compound formed from mort ‘dead’ and gage ‘pledge’ (source of English gage and closely related to English wage). The notion behind the word is supposedly that if the mortgagor fails to repay the loan, the property pledged as security is lost, or becomes ‘dead’, to him or her.
=> mortal, wage - mortgage (n.)
- late 14c., morgage, "conveyance of property as security for a loan or agreement," from Old French morgage (13c.), mort gaige, literally "dead pledge" (replaced in modern Frech by hypothèque), from mort "dead" (see mortal (adj.)) + gage "pledge" (see wage (n.)). So called because the deal dies either when the debt is paid or when payment fails. Old French mort is from Vulgar Latin *mortus "dead," from Latin mortuus, past participle of mori "to die" (see mortal (adj.)). The -t- restored in English based on Latin.
- mortgage (v.)
- late 15c., from mortgage (n.). Related: Mortgaged; mortgaging.
中文词源
在古代西方，家庭中的长子在法律上拥有继承父亲遗产的权利。如果长子需要一大笔钱，而又无法从其父亲那里获得，他往往会找其他人借款。而其他人之所以愿意借钱给他，看中的是他的长子继承权，相信他将来继承遗产后可以偿还债务。借钱的时候，借款人会立下誓言，等他父亲去世，他继承遗产后就会偿还债务及其利息。这就是英语单词mortgage的来源。mortgage由mort和gage组成，mort表示“死亡”，gage表示“誓言、保证”，所以mortgage一词的字面含义就是“死亡保证”，即以其父亲的死亡（等于遗产）为保证的贷款。
mortgage： ['mɔːgɪdʒ] vt.n.抵押贷款
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：mortgage 词源，mortgage 含义。
来自古法语mort gage,死亡承诺，来自mort,死亡，词源同mortal,gage,承诺，词源同engage,wage.比喻用法，即直到死亡也会履行的承诺。用于指古代的抵押资产以换取借款的经济行为，即现代意义上的按揭。
词根词缀： -mort-死 + -gage-(承诺,抵押) → 抵押人(mortgagor)到期如果不能清还贷款,其被抵押的财产就会死(丧失)
同源词：wed, wage, engage 搭配：in mortgage 在抵押中on mortgage 以抵押方式place a mortgage on… 以…作抵押
