英文词源
- starch (v.)
- late 14c., from Old English *stercan (Mercian), *stiercan (West Saxon) "make rigid," found in stercedferhð "fixed, hard, resolute" (related to stearc "stiff"), from Proto-Germanic *starkijan "to make hard" (cognates: German Stärke "strength, starch," Swedish stärka "to starch"), from PIE root *ster- (1) "strong, firm, stiff, rigid" (see stark). Related: Starched; starching.
- starch (n.)
- "pasty substance used to stiffen cloth," mid-15c., back-formation from starch (v.). Figurative sense of "stiffness of manner" is recorded from 1705.
中文词源
starch：使僵硬，使变硬，上浆，淀粉
来自古英语*stercan,使僵硬，使变硬，来自 Proto-Germanic*starkijan,使变硬，来自 PIE*ster, 僵的，硬的，固定的，词源同 stark,startle,sterile.因过去常用浆糊给布料糊浆使布料变硬，而 淀粉是制浆的重要原料，因而引申词义淀粉。现在中国农村仍然有熬制浆糊贴春联的习俗。
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