domino的词源
英文词源
- domino
- domino: [18] The word domino was borrowed from French, where it originally signified (in the 16th century) a sort of hooded cloak worn by priests. It presumably represents a form of Latin dominus ‘lord, master’, but the reason for the application has never been satisfactorily explained (one suggestion is that it comes from the ritual formula benedicamus Domino ‘let us bless the Lord’).
By the time English acquired it, it had come to mean ‘hooded cloak with a halfmask, worn at masquerades’, and by the 19th century it was being used for the mask itself. It is far from clear whether the application to the game played with small rectangular blocks, which dates in English from the 19th century, represents a new use of the same word or a return to the original Latin, but either way the reason behind the usage is not known.
A possibility that has been advanced is that the winner of the game originally shouted domino! ‘lord!’.
- domino (n.)
- 1801, from French domino (1771), perhaps (on comparison of the black tiles of the game) from the meaning "hood with a cloak worn by canons or priests" (1690s), from Latin dominus "lord, master" (see domain), but the connection is not clear. Klein thinks it might be directly from dominus, "because he who has first disposed his pieces becomes 'the master.' " Metaphoric use in geopolitics is from April 1954, first used by U.S. President Eisenhower in a "New York Times" piece, in reference to what happens when you set up a row of dominos and knock the first one down.
中文词源
历史说法不一。词源同domineer, 控制，因这种骨牌一个接一个的倒下而得名。其字面意思为主，上帝。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：domino 词源，domino 含义。
多米诺骨牌（domino）是一种西洋游戏，将许多长方形的骨牌竖立排列成行，轻轻推倒第1张牌时，其余骨牌将依次纷纷倒下。用于比喻时，多米诺骨牌效应常指一系列的连锁反应，即牵一发而动全身。
