spigot的词源

英文词源

spigot (n.)

late 14c., "plug used to stop the hole of a cask," according to Barnhart probably from Old French *espigot (compare Gascony dialect espigot "core of a fruit, small ear of grain"), diminutive of Old Provençal espiga "ear of grain," from Latin spica "ear of grain" (see spike (n.2)). Meaning "valve for controlling the flow of a liquid" is from 1520s; the connecting notion is "that which controls or restrains."

中文词源

spigot：水龙头，塞，栓

词源不确定，可能同 spike,麦穗。字面意思即用一把草堵漏水孔。

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