英文词源
- segment
- segment: see section
- segment (n.)
- 1560s, from Latin segmentum "a strip or piece cut off, a cutting, strips of colored cloth," from secare "to cut" (see section (n.)), with euphonious alteration of -c- to -g- before -m-. Latin segmentum was used in Medieval Latin as a geometry term, translating Greek tmema, and the word was first picked up in English in this sense. Meaning "segmental portion of anything circular" is from 1640s; general sense of "a division, section" is from 1762.
- segment (v.)
- 1859, intransitive, in reference to cell division, from segment (n.). Transitive sense, "divide (something) into segments" is from 1872. Related: Segmented; segmenting.
中文词源
词根词缀： -seg-切割 + -ment名词词尾
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：segment 词源，segment 含义。
来自拉丁语 secare, 砍，切，来自 PIE*sek,砍，切，词源同 section,secateurs.-ment,名词后缀。 引申诸相关词义。
