tadpole的词源
英文词源
- tadpole
- tadpole: [15] A tadpole is etymologically a ‘toad-head’. The word was coined from Middle English tadde ‘toad’ and pol ‘head’ (ancestor of modern English poll ‘voting’, historically a counting of ‘heads’). Tadpoles, with their moonlike faces appearing to take up about half of their small globular bodies, seem rather like animated heads.
=> poll, toad - tadpole (n.)
- mid-15c., from tadde "toad" (see toad) + pol "head" (see poll (n.)).
中文词源
来自 tadde,蟾蜍，词源同 toad,pol,头，词源同 poll.引申词义蝌蚪。
该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：tadpole 词源，tadpole 含义。
tad-和toad（蟾蜍）同源；-pol-是词根“头”，蝌蚪给人印象最深的就是它的头部；如单词poll指“投票”，它的本义就是“头”，而最初投票票数的统计是按人头算的；再如poll tax“人头税”。“头”可引申为“顶端，尖端”，所以单词pollard指“截去树的枝梢”。
