英文词源
- manure
- manure: see manoeuvre
- manure (v.)
- c. 1400, "to cultivate land," also "to hold property," from Anglo-French meynoverer, Old French manouvrer "to work with the hands, cultivate; carry out; make, produce," from Medieval Latin manuoperare (see maneuver (n.)). Sense of "work the earth" led to "put dung on the soil" (1590s) and to the current noun meaning "dung spread as fertilizer," which is first attested 1540s. Until late 18c., however, the verb still was used in a figurative sense of "to cultivate the mind, train the mental powers."
It is ... his own painfull study ... that manures and improves his ministeriall gifts. [Milton, 1641]
Related: Manured; manuring. - manure (n.)
- "dung or compost used as fertilizer," 1540s, see manure (v.).
中文词源
缩写自古法语manouvrer,耕作，操作，词源同manoeuvre,操作，控制。后引申词义在土地上劳作，给土地施肥，最后用于指肥料本身及粪肥。词源演变比较pork,farrow,furrow.
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：manure 词源，manure 含义。
词源上，它和maneuver（巧妙操纵；调遣）是一个词，都来自拉丁语manuopera；据此知maneuver的词根-euver-，其原型是-oper-“工作”，加上词根-man-“手”，字面义是“手工操作、劳作”，直接得出“操纵”义，由“田间劳作”间接引申出“施肥”义。
