scepter的词源
英文词源
- scepter (n.)
- c. 1300, ceptre, from Old French sceptre (12c.), from Latin sceptrum "royal staff," from Greek skeptron "staff to lean on; royal scepter;" in transferred use, "royalty," from root of skeptein "to prop or stay, lean on." Apparently a cognate with Old English sceaft (see shaft (n.1)). The verb meaning "to furnish with a scepter" is from 1520s. Related: sceptred.
中文词源
来自古法语 sceptre,来自拉丁语 sceptrum,王杖,权杖,来自希腊语 skeptron,王杖,权杖,棍 子,来自 skeptein,支撑,来自拉丁语 PIE*skep,砍,切,削,词源同 shaft,shape.
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