dossier的词源

英文词源

dossier (n.)

1880, from French dossier "bundle of papers," from dos "back" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin dossum, variant of Latin dorsum "back" (see dorsal). Supposedly so called because the bundle bore a label on the back, or possibly from resemblance of the bulge in a mass of bundled papers to the curve of a back. Old French dossiere meant "back-strap, ridge strap (of a horse's harness)."

中文词源

dossier：卷宗

来自拉丁语dorsum, 背，词源同endorse. 因过去人们习惯在文件后面做记号，引申词义卷宗。

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