scion的词源

英文词源

scion (n.): c. 1300, "a shoot or twig," especially one for grafting, from Old French sion, cion "descendant; shoot, twig; offspring" (12c., Modern French scion, Picard chion), of uncertain origin. OED rejects derivation from Old French scier "to saw." Perhaps a diminutive from Frankish *kid-, from Proto-Germanic *kidon-, from PIE *geie- "to sprout, split, open" (see chink (n.1)). Figurative use is attested from 1580s in English; meaning "an heir, a descendant" is from 1814, from the "family tree" image.

来自古法语 sion,cion,幼枝，接穗，可能来自古法语 scier,剪，切，来自拉丁语 secare,剪，切，词源同 segment,scythe.引申词义后人，子孙，尤指名门望族的子弟。

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