treacle的词源
英文词源
- treacle
- treacle: [14] Treacle is etymologically an ‘antidote to the bite of wild animals’. The word comes via Old French triacle and Latin thēriaca from Greek thēriaké. This was short for antídotos thēriaké ‘antidote to poisonous animals’, thēriaké being a derivative of thēríon ‘wild animal, poisonous animal’, which in turn came from thér ‘wild savage’. It retained its original meaning into English, but it then gradually broadened out into ‘medicine’, and the practice of disguising the unpleasant taste of medicine with sugar syrup led in the 17th century to its application to ‘syrup’.
- treacle (n.)
- mid-14c., "medicinal compound, antidote for poison," from Old French triacle "antidote, cure for snake-bite" (c. 1200), from Vulgar Latin *triacula, from Latin theriaca, from Greek theriake (antidotos) "antidote for poisonous wild animals," from fem. of theriakos "of a wild animal," from therion "wild animal," diminutive of ther (genitive theros) "wild animal," from PIE root *ghwer- "wild" (see fierce).
Sense of "molasses" is first recorded 1690s (the connection may be from the use of molasses as a laxative, or its use to disguise the bad taste of medicine); that of "anything too sweet or sentimental" is from 1771. Related: Treacly.
中文词源
在美国英语称molasses 的糖蜜在英语英语称treacle 并不是因为它会匙或刀上trickle（滴，淌）下来的缘故。它借自古法语triacle,源于拉丁语theriaca,原义为“解毒剂”或“解毒药”（antidote）指用以治疗蛇类等野兽咬伤的药膏。旧时此类解毒药膏和万灵药是由蜂蜜加各种药草和药物制成，如著名的威尼斯药膏（Venice treacle）即由蜂蜜和60余种药草和药物调制而成。17世纪时苦的药和难吃的药往往裹以糖蜜。这种做法最后导致treacle 从“药膏”或“解毒药”一义转指“糖蜜”，或“（尤其指炼制蔗糖时产生的）糖浆”。
该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：treacle 词源，treacle 含义。
来自古法语 triacle,解毒剂，尤指蛇毒，来自拉丁语 theriaca,解毒剂，来自希腊语 ther,野兽， 来自 PIE*ghwer,狂野的，词源同 fierce,ferocious,panther.字母 f,t 音变，比较 firm,throne.后用 于指糖浆，可能因为解毒剂偏苦，而糖浆作为中和物必不可少。
