secretary的词源
英文词源
- secretary
- secretary: [14] A secretary was originally a ‘person in someone else’s confidence, sharing secret or private matters with them’ (‘[Christ] taking with him his three special secretaries, that is to say Peter and James and John’, Nicholas Love, Mirror of the life of Jesus Christ 1400). The word was adapted from late Latin sēcrētārius ‘confidential aide’, a derivative of Latin sēcrētus ‘secret’. The notion of writing letters and performing other clerical duties developed in the Latin word, and first emerged in English in the 15th century.
=> secret - secretary (n.)
- late 14c., "person entrusted with secrets," from Medieval Latin secretarius "clerk, notary, confidential officer, confidant," a title applied to various confidential officers, noun use of adjective meaning "private, secret, pertaining to private or secret matters" (compare Latin secretarium "a council-chamber, conclave, consistory"), from Latin secretum "a secret, a hidden thing" (see secret (n.)).
Meaning "person who keeps records, write letters, etc.," originally for a king, first recorded c. 1400. As title of ministers presiding over executive departments of state, it is from 1590s. The word also is used in both French and English to mean "a private desk," sometimes in French form secretaire. The South African secretary bird so called (1786) in reference to its crest, which, when smooth, resembles a pen stuck over the ear. Compare Late Latin silentiarius "privy councilor, 'silentiary," from Latin silentium "a being silent."
中文词源
来源于拉丁语中secret.us派生的secret.arius(担任机密工作的助手)。
词根词缀： se-分离 + cret(-cern-)区分 + -ary名词词尾
该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：secretary 词源，secretary 含义。
拉丁前缀se-与self同源，表by itself，因此延伸出alone,apart和without的含义。词根cret-表区分、辨别，后缀-ary这里表人。secretary=a keeper of secrets。比较单词secrete [sɪ'kriːt] vt.藏匿；私下侵吞；分泌，藏着的宝贝可不能给别人看。
来自 secret,保密，保密，-ary,人。引申词义秘书，干事等。
