diverse的词源
英文词源
- perse
- perse: [13] Diverse is one of a small family of English words, including also pers, pert, and porce, which come ultimately from Latin dīvertere. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘aside’ and vertere ‘turn’ (source of English verse, version, vertebra, etc and related to worth), and hence meant literally ‘turn aside, turn out of the way’.
It developed in various metaphorical directions, however. One was ‘turn one’s husband or wife out of the way’ which, via the variant dīvortere, gave English porce [14]. The central sense of the verb passed more or less unchanged into English, via French pertir, as pert [15], but its past participle persus illustrates a further metaphorical strand, in which ‘turned aside’ has become ‘separate, different’.
English acquired this via Old French in the 13th century in two distinct forms: masculine pers and feminine perse. The present-day semantic distinction between the former (‘various, several’) and the latter (‘different’) had established itself by around 1700.
=> pert, porce, verse, version, worth - perse (adj.)
- c. 1300, spelling variant of pers (q.v.), perhaps by analogy with converse, traverse, etc. In some cases directly from Latin persus, and since c. 1700 restricted to the meaning "different in character or quality." Related: Diversely.
中文词源
di-, 分开，散开，来自dis-变体。-verse, 转，词源同converse, versus. 即转开，多样的。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：perse 词源，perse 含义。
词根词缀： di-分开 + -vers-转 + -e
