英文词源
- pave (v.)
- early 14c., "to cover (a street) with stones or other material," from Old French paver "to pave" (12c.), perhaps a back-formation from Old French pavement or else from Vulgar Latin *pavare, from Latin pavire "to beat, ram, tread down," from PIE *pau- "to cut, strike, stamp" (cognates: Latin putare "to prune;" Greek paiein "to strike;" Lithuanian piauju "to cut," piuklas "saw"). Related: Paved; paving. The figurative sense of "make smooth" (as in pave the way) is attested from 1580s.
中文词源
来自古法语paver,铺路，来自拉丁语pavire,击打，踩，践踏，来自PIE*pau,砍，击，引申词义思考，词源同pudenda,compute,putative.
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