duty的词源

英文词源

duty

duty: [13] Duty comes from Anglo-Norman dueté. This was a derivative of Old French deu ‘owed’ (source of English due [13]), which in turn came from Latin dēbitus, past participle of dēbēre ‘owe’ and source of English debit and debt. (Latin dēbēre was originally a compound verb formed from the prefix dē- ‘away’ and habēre ‘have’, literally ‘have away’, that is ‘keep in one’s possession what belongs to someone else’.) So etymologically one’s duty is what one ‘owes’ to others.
=> debit, debt, due

duty (n.)

late 13c., from Anglo-French duete, from Old French deu "due, owed; proper, just," from Vulgar Latin *debutus, from Latin debitus, past participle of debere "to owe" (see debt). Related: Duties. The sense of "tax or fee on imports, exports, etc." is from late 15c.; duty-free as a noun is attested from 1958.

中文词源

duty：责任，税

来自due, 欠债的，应当的。引申词义责任，税。

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duty：义务，责任；(关)税[纳税是一种“义务”]

来源于拉丁语复合动词debere(欠),由前缀de-(离开)和habere(拥有)组成,其过去分词为debitus(英语debit和debt的词源),进入古法语为deu(欠,英语due的词源),进入盎格鲁-诺曼底语为duete,进入英语为duty。

同源词：debit, debt, due词组或短语：on duty 上班,值班off duty 下班搭配：duties on 附加在…商品上的税