echelon的词源

英文词源

echelon

echelon: see scale

echelon (n.)

1796, echellon, "step-like arrangement of troops," from French échelon "level, echelon," literally "rung of a ladder," from Old French eschelon, from eschiele "ladder," from Late Latin scala "stair, slope," from Latin scalae (plural) "ladder, steps," from PIE *skand- "to spring, leap" (see scan (v.)). Sense of "level, subpision" is from World War I.

中文词源

echelon：阶层

来自法语echelon, 来自古法语eschelon, 来自拉丁语scala，梯子，词源同ascend, escalate. 其拼写变化参照check.

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