英文词源
- stamina
- stamina: [17] Etymologically, stamina is the plural of stamen ‘male reproductive part of a flower’ [17]. The ultimate source of both is Latin stāmen ‘thread of woven cloth’, which went back to Indo-European *stāmen-, a derivative of the base *stā- ‘stand’ (source also of English stand). The application to the plant-part appears to go back to the Roman naturalist Pliny, who used stāmen for the stamens of a sort of lily, which resembled threads of cloth. The Latin plural stāmina was borrowed into English in the metaphorical sense ‘threads of human life, vital capacities’, and by the 18th century it had broadened out to ‘vigour’.
=> stamen, stand - stamina (n.)
- 1670s, "rudiments or original elements of something," from Latin stamina "threads," plural of stamen (genitive staminis) "thread, warp" (see stamen). Sense of "power to resist or recover, strength, endurance" first recorded 1726 (originally plural), from earlier meaning "congenital vital capacities of a person or animal;" also in part from use of the Latin word in reference to the threads spun by the Fates (such as queri nimio de stamine "too long a thread of life"), and partly from a figurative use of Latin stamen "the warp (of cloth)" on the notion of the warp as the "foundation" of a fabric. Related: Staminal.
中文词源
stamina（活力）：罗马神话中命运三女神的命运之线
英语单词stamina（活力）来自拉丁语stamina，是stamen的复数形 式，而stamen的原意是织布机上的经线，是纺织时的基础，其中的sta表示“stand”（站立）。因此stamina的本意就是“多根经线”。由于 在罗马神话中，人的生命取决于命运三女神手中的命运之线，因此stamina也就与人的生命力产生了联系，表示构成生命的基本要素、生命活力。
原本表示“经线”的stamen现在则用来表示植物的“雄蕊”，因为雄蕊的形状与“经线”相似，在植物繁殖过程中的基础作用也与“经线”在纺织时的基础作用相同。
stamina：['stæmɪnə] n.活力，精力，生命力，持久力，耐力，康复能力
stamen：['steɪmən] n.雄蕊
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：stamina 词源，stamina 含义。
stamina：耐力，持久力
来自拉丁语 stamina,复数格于 stamen,雄蕊，纺线，经线，命运线，生命线。引申比喻义耐力， 持久力。