socket的词源

英文词源

socket (n.)

c. 1300, "spearhead" (originally one shaped like a plowshare), from Anglo-French soket "spearhead, plowshare" (mid-13c.), diminutive of Old French soc "plowshare," from Vulgar Latin *soccus, perhaps from a Gaulish source, from Celtic *sukko- (cognates: Welsh swch "plowshare," Middle Irish soc "plowshare"), properly "hog's snout," from PIE *su- "pig" (cognates: Latin sus "swine;" see sow (n.) "female pig").

Meaning "hollow part or piece for receiving and holding something" first recorded early 15c.; anatomical sense is from c. 1600; domestic electrical sense first recorded 1885. Socket wrench is attested from 1837. The verb is 1530s, from the noun. Related: Socketed; socketing.

中文词源

socket：插座

先说sow（母猪），它来自印欧词根*su-“猪”，这个音可能是对猪的叫声的模仿；socket和它同源，具体地说，sock-表“猪”，-et是指小后缀；所以“插座”就是“像小猪鼻子一样的东西”。sow的同源词还有swine（猪），如“猪流感”不叫pig flu，而是swine flu。

该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：socket 词源，socket 含义。

socket：孔，槽，窝，穴，插座

来自盎格鲁法语 soket,犁桦，犁尖，小词形式于古法语 soc,犁桦，可能最终来自 PIE*su,猪， 词源同 sow,swine.即像个猪鼻子，后引申词义孔，槽，窝，穴以及现代词义插座，字面意思 即犁挖的小洞。