英文词源
- vital
- vital: [14] Vital comes via Old French vital from Latin vītālis. This was a derivative of vīta ‘life’. And vīta went back ultimately to Latin vīvus ‘living’, source of English vivacious, vivid, etc. Viable [19] is also descended from vīta, and etymologically means ‘capable of life’.
=> viable, vitamin, vivid - vital (adj.)
- late 14c., "of or manifesting life," from Latin vitalis "of or belonging to life," from vita "life," related to vivere "to live," from PIE root *gweie- (1) "to live" (see bio-). The sense of "necessary or important" is from 1610s, via the notion of "essential to life" (late 15c.). Vital capacity recorded from 1852. Related: Vitally.
中文词源
来自拉丁语vita,生命,来自PIE*gweie,存活,词源同biology,quick,vivid,zoo.
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版:vital 词源,vital 含义。
vital:生死攸关的,重大的,至关重要的
词根词缀: -vit-活 + -al形容词词尾
来自拉丁语 vita,生命,来自 PIE*gweie,存活,词源同 biology,quick,vivid,zoo.