doss的词源

英文词源

doss: doss: [18] The use of doss in senses associated with ‘lying down on a bed’ comes from an earlier notion of ‘lying on one’s back’. In the 18th century the word was dorse, a borrowing from Latin dorsum ‘back’, but by the 19th century it had become doss, perhaps owing to the influence of French dos. Other English words from the same source include endorse, the adjective dorsal [15], and dossier [19]. This was acquired from French dossier, a derivative of dos, which originally signified a ‘bunch of papers with a label on the back’.
=> dorsal, dossier, endorse

来自拉丁语dorsum, 背，词源同endorse字母r脱落。引申词义睡觉，特指在简陋的地方过夜。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：doss 词源，doss 含义。

它和endorse（背书；支持）同源，前缀en-表“在...上”，总之就是表示方位，词根dors表“背”，所以字面义为“在背面”，在背面书写，即“背书”。所以doss的本义是“背”，睡觉就是背对床躺着。还有dossier（档案材料；卷宗），本义指“背面贴标签的文件”。