Monaco的词源
英文词源
- monk (n.)
- Old English munuc "monk" (used also of women), from Proto-Germanic *muniko- (cognates: Old Frisian munek, Middle Dutch monic, Old High German munih, German Mönch), an early borrowing from Vulgar Latin *monicus (source of French moine, Spanish monje, Italian monaco), from Late Latin monachus "monk," originally "religious hermit," from Ecclesiastical Greek monakhos "monk," noun use of a classical Greek adjective meaning "solitary," from monos "alone" (see mono-). For substitution of -o- for -u-, see come.
In England, before the Reformation, the term was not applied to the members of the mendicant orders, who were always called friars. From the 16th c. to the 19th c., however, it was usual to speak of the friars as a class of monks. In recent times the distinction between the terms has been carefully observed by well-informed writers. In French and Ger. the equivalent of monk is applied equally to 'monks' and 'friars.' [OED]
- Monte Carlo
- Italian, literally "Charles's Mountain," founded 1866 and named for Charles III of Monaco (1818-1889). The car rally there dates to 1911.
- Monte Carlo fallacy
- 1957, named for resort in Monaco famous for its gambling casinos. The fallacy of thinking that the probability of a particular outcome rises with the successive number of opposite outcomes. Contrary to the Monte Carlo fallacy, if the roulette wheel stops on black 99 times in a row, the chances that the 100th spin will be red are still just under 50-50.
中文词源
Monaco（摩纳哥）：祭祀海格立斯的神庙
摩纳哥是一个位于法国南部的城邦国家，国土面积为1.98平方公里，主要是由摩纳哥 旧城和随后建立起来的周遭地区组成，是世界第2小的国家。
摩纳哥的英文地名Monaco源自于约公元前6世纪，来自古希腊人于该地区附近所建立 的希腊殖民地一一摩诺伊科（Monoikos)。根据希腊神话，相传大力士海格立斯曾途经这里， 因此希腊人在此地建了一个神庙祭祀海克力斯，称为“Monoikos”，与词根mono-(单一） 同源，本意是“独栋的房屋或神庙”。该名称逐渐转变成此处的地名，进入英语后拼写演变 为 Monaco。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：Monaco 词源，Monaco 含义。
