statistic的词源

英文词源

statistic: statistic: [18] The term statistics [18] etymologically denotes the ‘science of the state’. It comes from statisticus ‘of state affairs’, a modern Latin coinage based on classical Latin status (source of English state). It was the 18thcentury German political scientist Aschenwall who brought it (in German statistisch) into general usage, in the specific sense ‘of the collection and evaluation of data (particularly numerical data) relating to the study of the state and its functions and institutions’. By the 1830s it had broadened out into its modern general sense. English acquired the word from German.
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statistic (n.): 1852, "one numerical statistic," see statistics. From 1939 in reference to a person (considered as nothing more than an example of some measured quantity).

词根词缀： -stat-站立,放置(→“政体”站立方式→国家) + -ist从事某项工作(此处：描绘国家所处状态)的人 + -ic名称词尾

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

它和单词state（国家）同源，来自拉丁语statisticus（有关国家事务的），后来被一名德国政治学家进行了推广，主要指“国家运行及机构的研究数据的收集、评估”，进而引申为今义。简言之，由“国家事务的统计数据”引申为一般的“统计数据”。