expunge的词源

英文词源

expunge: expunge: see punctuation
expunge (v.): c. 1600, from Latin expungere "prick out, blot out, mark (a name on a list) for deletion" by pricking dots above or below it, literally "prick out," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + pungere "to prick, stab" (see pungent). According to OED, taken by early lexicographers in English to "denote actual obliteration by pricking;" it adds that the sense probably was influenced by sponge. Related: Expunged; expunging.

ex-, 向外。-pung, 刺，词源同pungent, point. 即拔刺，拔掉，删除。

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