exterminate的词源

英文词源

exterminate (v.)

1540s, "drive away," from Latin exterminatus, past participle of exterminare "drive out, expel, put aside, drive beyond boundaries," also, in Late Latin "destroy," from phrase ex termine "beyond the boundary," from ex- "out of" (see ex-) + termine, ablative of termen "boundary, limit, end" (see terminus).

Meaning "destroy utterly" is from 1640s in English, a sense found in equivalent words in French and in the Vulgate; earlier in this sense was extermine (mid-15c.). Related: Exterminated; exterminating.

中文词源

exterminate：灭绝，根除

ex-, 向外。-term, 界限，终端，词源同term, terminal. 即赶到界限外面，根除。

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exterminate：消灭，根绝  

词根词缀： ex-出,向外 + -termin-限定→范围 + -ate动词词尾 → 逐出某一范围