polish的词源

英文词源

polish: polish: [13] Latin polīre ‘make smooth and shiny’ is the ultimate source of English polish. It passed into Old French as polir, whose stem form was poliss- – whence polish. The element -pol- of English interpolate is related to polīre.
=> interpolate, polite
polish (v.): early 14c., polischen "make smooth," from Old French poliss-, present participle stem of polir (12c.) "to polish, decorate, see to one's appearance," from Latin polire "to polish, make smooth; decorate, embellish;" figuratively "refine, improve," said to be from Proto-Indo-European *pel- "to thrust, strike, drive" (via the notion of fulling cloth). The sense of "free from coarseness, to refine" first recorded in English mid-14c. Related: Polished; polishing. Slang polish off "finish" is 1837, from notion of applying a coat of polish being the final step in a piece of work.
polish (n.): 1590s, "absence of coarseness," from polish (v.). From 1704 as "act of polishing;" 1819 as "substance used in polishing."
Polish (adj.): 1670s, from Pole + -ish. Related: Polishness. Polish-American attested from 1898.

来自古法语poliss-,装饰，擦亮，使整洁，来自拉丁语polire,装饰，使整洁，来自PIE*pel,推，击打，驱动，踩踏，词源同impel,compel,fuller(漂洗工，洗衣工)。

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可以用它的同源词反过来体会其含义。polish（磨光）和polite（有礼貌的）不但整体相似，而且的确同源，都来自拉丁语polire"使光滑"。磨光是对粗糙边角的修饰，礼貌是对粗陋言行的修饰。