salient的词源

英文词源

salient: salient: [16] Salient is one of a large number of English words that go back ultimately to Latin salīre ‘jump’. Others include assail, assault, desultory, insult, sally, sauté, and also salacious [17], which goes back to Latin salāx ‘given to leaping on to females in order to copulate’, a derivative of salīre. Salient itself comes from the present participle saliēns, and was originally used as a heraldic term, meaning ‘jumping’; the metaphorical ‘prominent’ did not emerge until the 18th century.
=> assail, assault, desultory, insult, result, salacious, sally, sauté
salient (adj.): 1560s, "leaping," a heraldic term, from Latin salientem (nominative saliens), present participle of salire "to leap," from PIE root *sel- (4) "to jump" (cognates: Greek hallesthai "to leap," Middle Irish saltraim "I trample," and probably Sanskrit ucchalati "rises quickly").

It was used in Middle English as an adjective meaning "leaping, skipping." The meaning "pointing outward" (preserved in military usage) is from 1680s; that of "prominent, striking" first recorded 1840, from salient point (1670s), which refers to the heart of an embryo, which seems to leap, and translates Latin punctum saliens, going back to Aristotle's writings. Hence, the "starting point" of anything.
salient (n.): 1828, from salient (adj.).

它的词根sal-表“跳跃”，所以它还有“跳跃的”之义；跳跃将身子抬高，可以更惹人注目，所以引申为“突出的”；同根词如assault（突袭）、sally（突围）、assail（猛烈攻击）等。它和excellent（杰出的）整体音似，可联想串记。

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来自拉丁语 salire,跳，跳起，来自 PIE*sel,跳，词源同 sally,result,resilient.即跳跃的，跳出来的，引申词义显著的，最重要的。