英文词源
- malaise
- malaise: see malign
- malaise (n.)
- c. 1300, maleise "pain, suffering; sorrow, anxiety," also, by late 14c., "disease, sickness," from Old French malaise "difficulty, suffering, hardship," literally "ill-ease," from mal "bad" (see mal-) + aise "ease" (see ease (n.)). The current use is perhaps a mid-18c. reborrowing from Modern French. A Middle English verbal form, malasen "to trouble, distress" (mid-15c.), from Old French malaisier, did not endure.
中文词源
来自古法语malaise,困难，忍受，痛苦，来自mal-,坏的，不良的，aise,轻松，简单，词源同ease,disease.引申词义生病，不适，不舒服。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：malaise 词源，malaise 含义。
前缀mal-常表示负面含义，来自拉丁语malus“坏的”，所以我直接归为否定前缀，如malady（疾病），malaria（疟疾）；词根aise和单词ease（安逸）同源，来自同一个古法语单词；它的字面义为“不安逸，不舒服”，所以表“身体不适”。
