utility的词源
英文词源
- utility
- utility: see use
- utility (n.)
- late 14c., "fact of being useful," from Old French utilite "usefulness" (13c., Modern French + utilité), earlier utilitet (12c.), from Latin utilitatem (nominative utilitas) "usefulness, serviceableness, profit," from utilis "usable," from uti (see use (v.)). Meaning "a useful thing" is from late 15c. As a shortened form of public utility it is recorded from 1930.
中文词源
来自拉丁语uti, 使用,利用,用来指功用,公用事业。
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词根词缀: -util-用 + -ity名词词尾
来自拉丁语 uti,使用,利用,用来指功用,公用事业。