parallel的词源

英文词源

parallel: parallel: [16] Etymologically, parallel simply means ‘beside each other’. It comes via French parallèle and Latin parallēlus from Greek parállēlos. This was a compound formed from pará ‘beside’ and allélōn ‘each other’, a derivative of állos ‘other’ (to which English else is distantly related).
=> else
parallel (adj.): 1540s, from Middle French parallèle (16c.) and directly from Latin parallelus, from Greek parallelos "parallel," from para allelois "beside one another," from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + allelois "each other," from allos "other" (see alias (adv.)). As a noun from 1550s. Parallel bars as gymnastics apparatus are recorded from 1868.
parallel (v.): 1590s, from parallel (n.).

来源于希腊语中由para(在旁)和allelon[相互,--希腊语allos(其它)的派生词]组成的复合词parallelos,经由拉丁语parallelus和法语parallele进入英语。

词根词缀： par-侧面 + -all-其它 + -el名词词尾

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：parallel 词源，parallel 含义。

来自希腊语parallelos,并列，平行，para-,在旁，在周围，-allel,改变，另外的，词源同else,alternate.即在旁边的另外一条，引申词义平行的，并列的。