Rome的词源

英文词源

Rome: capital of Italy; seat of an ancient republic and empire; city of the Papacy, Old English, from Old French Rome, from Latin Roma, a word of uncertain origin. "The original Roma quadrata was the fortified enclosure on the Palatine hill," according to Tucker, who finds "no probability" in derivation from *sreu- "flow," and suggests the name is "most probably" from *urobsma (urbs, robur) and otherwise, "but less likely" from *urosma "hill" (compare Sanskrit varsman- "height, point," Lithuanian virsus "upper"). Another suggestion [Klein] is that it is from Etruscan (compare Rumon, former name of Tiber River).

Common in proverbs, such as Rome was not buylt in one daye (1540s); for when a man doth to Rome come, he must do as there is done (1590s); All roads alike conduct to Rome (1806).

来自拉丁语 Roma,罗马，词源不详。一种说法是来自 Romulus,传说中古罗马人祖先，但是也有学者指出该名字本身衍生自 Roma.另也有说法认为该词来自 Rumon,穿罗马城而过的 Tiber 河的古名，来自希腊语 rheo,流动，河流，词源同 rheum,stream.

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