英文词源
- physic (n.)
- c. 1300, fysike, "art of healing, medical science," also "natural science" (c. 1300), from Old French fisike "natural science, art of healing" (12c.) and directly from Latin physica (fem. singular of physicus) "study of nature," from Greek physike (episteme) "(knowledge) of nature," from fem. of physikos "pertaining to nature," from physis "nature," from phyein "to bring forth, produce, make to grow" (related to phyton "growth, plant," phyle "tribe, race," phyma "a growth, tumor") from PIE root *bheue- "to be exist, grow" (see be). Spelling with ph- attested from late 14c. (see ph). As a noun, "medicine that acts as a laxative," 1610s. The verb meaning "to dose with medicine" is attested from late 14c.
中文词源
physic：自然，物理，自然科学，医学，医药，医术，治疗
来自拉丁语physica,自然知识，来自希腊语physis,自然，来自phyein,生长，产生，存在，来自PIE*bheue,生长，存在，词源同be,physics,physiology.引申词义自然科学，自然疗法，医学，药术等。
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