英文词源
- mandate
- mandate: [16] Etymologically, mandate means ‘give one’s hand’. It comes from mandātum (source also of English maundy), a noun use of the past participle of Latin mandāre ‘commit, command’. This verb was formed by blending manus ‘hand’ and dāre ‘give’. English verbs derived from mandāre are command, commend, demand, and remand.
=> command, commend, date, demand, donation, manual, maundy, remand - mandate (n.)
- "judicial or legal order," c. 1500, from Middle French mandat (15c.) and directly from Latin mandatum "commission, command, order," noun use of neuter past participle of mandare "to order, commit to one's charge," literally "to give into one's hand," probably from manus "hand" (see manual) + dare "to give" (see date (n.1)). Political sense of "approval supposedly conferred by voters to the policies or slogans advocated by winners of an election" is from 1796. League of Nations sense is from 1919.
- mandate (v.)
- 1620s, "to command," from mandate (n.). Meaning "to delegate authority, permit to act on behalf of a group" is from 1958; used earlier in the context of the League of Nations, "to authorize a power to control a certain territory for some specified purpose" (1919). Related: Mandated; mandating.
中文词源
来自拉丁语mandatum,命令，委托，交付，来自manus,手，词源同manual, -dat,给予，词源同data,date.即交付给某人，引申词义授权，命令等。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：mandate 词源，mandate 含义。
词根-man-指“手”，如manual（手册）、manicure（修指甲）等；词根-dat-、-dit-指“给”，如edit（编辑；字面义“对外给出，公之于众”，编辑的目的是出版）；该词字面义“亲手给出”，给出权力即“授权”，给出要求即“命令”。command（命令）同源。
