英文词源
- cement
- cement: [13] Latin caementa meant ‘stone chips used for making mortar’; etymologically, the notion behind it was of ‘hewing for a quarry’, for it was originally *caedmenta, a derivative of caedere ‘cut’ (from which English gets concise and decide). In due course the signification of the Latin word passed from ‘small broken stones’ to ‘powdered stone (used for mortar)’, and it was in this sense that it passed via Old French ciment into English.
=> concise, decide - cement (n.)
- c. 1300, from Old French ciment "cement, mortar, pitch," from Latin cæmenta "stone chips used for making mortar" (singular caementum), from caedere "to cut down, chop, beat, hew, fell, slay" (see -cide). The sense evolution from "small broken stones" to "powdered stones used in construction" took place before the word reached English.
- cement (v.)
- c. 1400, from cement (n.) or Old French cimenter. Figurative use from c. 1600. Related: Cemented; cementing.
中文词源
cement：水泥
发音释义：[sɪ'ment] n.水泥；水门汀v.巩固；粘合；粘牢
结构分析：cement = ce（切割）+ment（名词后缀）→切割开的石头→石头粉末→水泥
词源解释：ce←拉丁语caedere（切割）
助记窍门：cement以前被音译为“水门汀”
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：cement 词源，cement 含义。
cement：水泥
来自PIE*skei, 砍，劈，词源同excise, scissor . -ment, 名词后缀。原指劈下的小石块，后指水泥。
cement：水泥；胶泥，胶合剂
经古法语ciment(小石子,粉末石),来源于拉丁语caementa(做砂浆的石屑)。