英文词源
- frontier (n.)
- c. 1400, frowntere, "front line of an army;" early 15c., fronture, "borderland, part of a country which faces another," from Old French frontiere "boundary-line of a country," also "frontier fortress; front rank of an army" (13c.), noun use of adjective frontier "facing, neighboring," from front "brow" (see front (n.)). In reference to North America, "part of the country which is at the edge of its settled regions" from 1670s. Later it was given a specific sense:
What is the frontier? ... In the census reports it is treated as the margin of that settlement which has a density of two or more to the square mile. [F.J. Turner, "The Frontier in American History," 1920]
中文词源
来自front,前面的，原义为前线部队，边疆。后用于美国西部大开发时期拓荒者，边远居民。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：frontier 词源，frontier 含义。
来源于拉丁语名词fons, fontis, m(前),经由古法语frontiere进入英语为frontier。
词根词缀： front前方 + -ier
