英文词源
- palette (n.)
- 1620s, "flat thin tablet used by an artist to lay and mix colors," from French palette, from Old French palete "small shovel, blade" (13c.) diminutive of pale "shovel, blade," from Latin pala "spade, shoulder blade," probably from PIE *pak-slo-, from root *pag- (see pact). Transferred sense of "colors used by a particular artist" is from 1882.
中文词源
来自拉丁语pala,铲，铁锹，可能缩写自patella,小盘子，来自patina的小词形式，词源同pan,patella,paddle.后用于指绘画时用的调色板，因形如小铁铲而得名。-ette,小词后缀。
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