vagabond的词源

英文词源

vagabond

vagabond: [15] A vagabond is etymologically a ‘wanderer’. The word comes via Old French vagabond from Latin vagābundus, which was derived from vagārī ‘wander’ (source also of English termagant, vagary [16], and vagrant [15]). And vagārī in turn was based on vagus ‘wandering, undecided’ (source also of English vague [16]).
=> termagant, vagary, vagrant, vague

vagabond (adj.)

early 15c. (earlier vacabond, c. 1400), from Old French vagabond, vacabond "wandering, unsteady" (14c.), from Late Latin vagabundus "wandering, strolling about," from Latin vagari "wander" (from vagus "wandering, undecided;" see vague) + gerunpe suffix -bundus.

vagabond (n.)

c. 1400, earlier wagabund (in a criminal indictment from 1311); see vagabond (adj.). Despite the earliest use, in Middle English often merely "one who is without a settled home, a vagrant" but not necessarily in a bad sense. Notion of "idle, disreputable person" predominated from 17c.

中文词源

vagabond：流浪汉

来自拉丁语vagabundus,漫游，流浪，vag-, 漫游，词源同vagus, -bundus, 拉丁语动名词后缀，词源同be. 参见extravagant.

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

vagabond：流浪者，游手好闲者

来源于拉丁语中基于形容词vagus(漫游的)的动词vagari(流浪)派生的vagabundus(流浪者),经由古法语vagabond进入英语。

词根词缀： -vag-漫游 + abond