recidivist的词源

英文词源

recipist: recipist: [19] A recipist – a ‘persistent offender’ – is etymologically someone who ‘falls back’. The word was borrowed from French récipiste, a descendant of medieval Latin recidīvāre. This in turn was based on the noun recidīvus ‘falling back’, a derivative of Latin recidere ‘fall back’, which was a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘back, again’ and cadere ‘fall’ (source of English cadence, case, decadent, etc).
=> cadaver, cadence, case, decadent
recipist (n.): "relapsed criminal," 1863, from French récipiste, from réciper "to fall back, relapse," from Medieval Latin recipare "to relapse into sin," from Latin recipus "falling back," from recidere "fall back," from re- "back, again" (see re-) + comb. form of cadere "to fall" (see case (n.)). Recipation in the spiritual sense is attested from early 15c., was very common 17c.

re-,向后，往回，-cid,掉落，词源同 case,deciduous.引申词义惯犯。

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