eclectic的词源

英文词源

eclectic (adj.): 1680s, "not confined to or following any one model or system," originally in reference to ancient philosophers who selected doctrines from every system; from French eclectique (1650s), from Greek eklektikos "selective," literally "picking out," from eklektos "selected," from eklegein "pick out, select," from ek "out" (see ex-) + legein "gather, choose" (see lecture (n.)). Broader sense of "borrowed from perse sources" is first recorded 1847. As a noun from 1817.

ec-, 向外。-lect, 选，收集，词源同elect, collect.

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