entire的词源

英文词源

entire: entire: [14] Entire and integrity [15] have the same source – Latin integer. This meant ‘whole, complete’, and was formed from the prefix in- ‘in’ and *tag-, the base which produced Latin tangere ‘touch’, source of English tactile and tangible (and indeed of intact [15], a parallel formation to entire and integrity).

English borrowed integer [16] itself as a mathematical term denoting a ‘whole’ number, and several of its Latin derivatives – not just integrity but also integral [16], from late Latin integrālis, and integrate [17], from Latin integrāre ‘make whole’. As its difference in form suggests, however, entire came via a different route.

The Latin accusative form integrum produced Vulgar Latin *integro, which passed into Old French as entier – hence English entire.
=> intact, integrity, tactile, tangible
entire (adj.): late 14c., from Old French entier "whole, unbroken, intact, complete," from Latin integrum "completeness" (nominative integer; see integer). Related: Entireness.

来自拉丁文integrum, 整体。来自in-, 不，非，-teg, 接触，词源同contagious, integrate. 即没有接触过的，完整的。

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它和integer（整数）同源，来自拉丁语integer。对于单词integer，in-为否定前缀；teg为词根“接触”；er为后缀；所以字面义为“没被碰过的”，从而“完整无缺的”，所以是“整”数。integrity（完整），integral（完整的），integrate（整合）。