英文词源
- amiable
- amiable: [14] Amiable and amicable are the two English descendants of that most familiar of Latin verbs, amo, amas, amat … ‘love’. It had two rather similar adjectives derived from it: amābilis ‘lovable’ and, via amīcus ‘friend’, amīcābilis ‘friendly’ (source of English amicable [15]). Amīcābilis became in French amiable, and this was borrowed into English as amiable, but its meaning was subsequently influenced by that of French aimable ‘likeable, lovable’, which came from Latin amābilis.
=> amicable - amiable (adj.)
- mid-14c., from Old French amiable, from Late Latin amicabilis "friendly," from amicus "friend," related to amare "to love" (see Amy). The form confused in Old French with amable "lovable," from Latin amare. Reborrowed later in proper Latin form as amicable.
中文词源
发音释义：['eɪmɪəb(ə)l] adj. 和蔼可亲的，亲切的
结构分析：amiable = ami（朋友）+able（能够）→能够做朋友的→和蔼的
词源解释：ami←拉丁语amicus（朋友）
同源词：amicable（友善的）
衍生词：amiability（和蔼可亲）
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：amiable 词源，amiable 含义。
来自词根am, 爱。
词根词缀： -am-爱 + -i- + -able形容词词尾
