英文词源
- praise
- praise: [13] Despite a certain similarity in form and meaning, praise has no connection with pray. It comes ultimately from Latin pretium ‘price’, which has also given English precious, price, prize, etc. From it was derived the late Latin verb pretiāre ‘value highly, praise’, which English acquired via Old French preisier.
=> precious, price, prize - praise (v.)
- c. 1300, "to laud, commend, flatter," from Old French preisier, variant of prisier "to praise, value," from Late Latin preciare, earlier pretiare (see price (n.)). Replaced Old English lof, hreþ.
Specifically with God as an object from late 14c. Related: Praised; praising. Now a verb in most Germanic languages (German preis, Danish pris, etc.), but only in English is it differentiated in form from cognate price. - praise (n.)
- early 14c., not common until 16c., from praise (v.).
中文词源
praise：赞扬，歌颂
词根词缀： prais(-prec-)价值 + -e
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：praise 词源，praise 含义。
praise：称赞，赞美
来自古法语prisier,称赞，赞美，评估，来自拉丁语preciare,估价，词源同price,appreciate.
praise：赞扬，称赞
这个单词和price（价格，价值）是同源关系，出自拉丁语pretium，precious（珍贵的）、prize（奖赏）等也出自该词，可以串记。体会praise和price发音上的相似，“赞扬”某人就是肯定其“价值”。联想：praise主体为raise（抬高），“赞扬”即“抬举”。