facility的词源

英文词源

facility (n.)

early 15c., "gentleness, lightness," from Middle French facilité "easiness, ease," from Latin facilitatem (nominative facilitas) "easiness, ease, fluency, willingness," from facilis "easy" (see facile). First in a medical book:

If it be nede forto smyte [the head] wiþ a malle, be it done with esynez or facilite [transl. Guy de Chauliac's "Grande Chirurgie"]

Its sense in English expanded to "opportunity" (1510s), to "aptitude, ease, quality of being easily done" (1530s). Meaning "place for doing something" which makes the word so beloved of journalists and fuzzy writers, first recorded 1872, via notion of "physical means by which (something) can be easily done."

中文词源

facility：设施

来自facile, 简单的。即促进事物简化的设施或工具，后词义通用化。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：facility 词源，facility 含义。

facility：便利；灵巧，熟练；(pl. facilities)设备，设施

词根词缀： -fac-做,作 + -ile形容词词尾(e略) + -ity名词词尾