suburb的词源

英文词源

suburb: suburb: see urban
suburb (n.): early 14c., "area outside a town or city," whether agricultural or residential but most frequently residential, from Old French suburbe "suburb of a town," from Latin suburbium "an outlying part of a city" (especially Rome), from sub "below, near" (see sub-) + urbs (genitive urbis) "city" (see urban). Glossed in Old English as underburg. Just beyond the reach of municipal jurisdiction, suburbs had a bad reputation in 17c. England, especially those of London, and suburban had a sense of "inferior, debased, licentious" (as in suburban sinner, slang for "loose woman, prostitute"). By 1817, the tinge had shifted to "of inferior manners and narrow views." Compare also French equivalent faubourg.
[T]he growth of the metropolis throws vast numbers of people into distant dormitories where ... life is carried on without the discipline of rural occupations and without the cultural resources that the Central District of the city still retains. [Lewis Mumford, 1922]

来源于拉丁语中urbs(城市)派生的urbanus。

词根词缀： sub-下,低;副 + urb城市

同源词：urban, urbane

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

sub-,在下，-urb,城市，词源同 urban,urbane.引申词义郊区，城乡结合部。