variable的词源
英文词源
- variable (adj.)
- late 14c., of persons, "apt to change, fickle," from Old French variable "various, changeable, fickle," from Late Latin variabilis "changeable," from variare "to change" (see vary). Of weather, seasons, etc., attested from late 15c.; of stars, from 1788.
- variable (n.)
- "quantity that can vary in value," 1816, from variable (adj.) in mathematical sense of "quantitatively indeterminate" (1710). Related: Variably; variability.
中文词源
来自vary,改变,多变。
该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版:variable 词源,variable 含义。
词根词缀: -vari-变化 + -able形容词词尾,被动意义
来自 vary,改变,多变。