dozen的词源

英文词源

dozen: dozen: [13] Dozen traces its ancestry back to the Latin word for ‘twelve’, duodecim. This was a compound formed from duo ‘two’ and decem ‘ten’. This gradually developed in the postclassical period via *dōdece to *doze, which, with the addition of the suffix -ēna, produced Old French dozeine, source of the English word.
=> duodenum
dozen (n.): c. 1300, from Old French dozaine "a dozen," from doze (12c.) "twelve," from Latin duodecim "twelve," from duo "two" + decem "ten" (see ten).

The Old French fem. suffix -aine is characteristically added to cardinals to form collectives in a precise sense ("exactly 12," not "about 12"). The dozens "invective contest" (1928) originated in slave culture, the custom probably African, the word probably from bulldoze (q.v.) in its original sense of "a whipping, a thrashing."

来自拉丁语duodecim, 十二，duo, 二，decim, 十。

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单词twelve（十二）以two（二）开头，同样，dozen也以“二”开头。它来自拉丁语duodecim，其中duo表“二”，decim表“十”。简单地说，dozen的do为词根“二”，-zen是“十”的残余。同根词如double（两倍的），其中ble表“翻折”。中文量词“打”是其音译。