extravagant的词源

英文词源

extravagant

extravagant: [14] An extravagant person is literally one who ‘wanders out of’ the proper course. The word comes from the present participle of medieval Latin extrāvagārī, a compound formed from the prefix extrā- ‘outside’ and vagārī ‘wander’ (source of English vagabond, vagary, and vagrant), which seems originally to have been used adjectivally with reference to certain uncodified or ‘stray’ papal decrees. This was the word’s original application in English, and the present-day meanings ‘wildly excessive’ and ‘spending too lavishly’ did not really establish themselves before the early 18th century.
=> vagabond, vagary, vagrant

extravagant (adj.)

late 14c., from Medieval Latin extravagantem (nominative extravagans), originally a word in Canon Law for uncodified papal decrees, present participle of extravagari "wander outside or beyond," from Latin extra "outside of" (see extra-) + vagari "wander, roam" (see vague). Extended sense of "excessive, extreme, exceeding reasonable limits" first recorded 1590s, probably via French; that of "wasteful, lavish, exceeding prudence in expenditure" is from 1711. Related: Extravagantly. Wordsworth ("Prelude") used extravagate (v.).

中文词源

extravagant：挥霍

extra-, 外面的，超过的。-vag, 漫游，词源同vague, vagary. 即偏离正常范围，过度挥霍。

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extravagant：奢侈的，铺张的；过度的，放肆的

来源于中世纪拉丁语中由前缀extra-(出,向外)和动词vagari(流浪,漫游)组成的复合动词extravagari的现在分词。

词根词缀： extra-超越 + -vag-漫游 + -ant形容词词尾