glamour的词源
英文词源
- glamour
- glamour: [18] Unlikely as it may seem, glamour is ultimately the same word as grammar. This seems to have been used in the Middle Ages for ‘learning’ in general, and hence, by superstitious association, for ‘magic’ (there is no actual record of this, but the related gramarye was employed in that sense). Scottish English had the form glamour for grammar (l is phonetically close to r, and the two are liable to change places), used for ‘enchantment’, or a ‘spell’, for whose introduction to general English Sir Walter Scott was largely responsible.
The literal sense ‘enchanted’ has now slipped into disuse, gradually replaced since the early 19th century by ‘delusive charm’, and latterly ‘fashionable attractiveness’.
=> grammar - glamour (n.)
- 1720, Scottish, "magic, enchantment" (especially in phrase to cast the glamor), a variant of Scottish gramarye "magic, enchantment, spell," said to be an alteration of English grammar (q.v.) in a specialized use of that word's medieval sense of "any sort of scholarship, especially occult learning," the latter sense attested from c. 1500 in English but said to have been more common in Medieval Latin. Popularized in English by the writings of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). Sense of "magical beauty, alluring charm" first recorded 1840. As that quality of attractiveness especially associated with Hollywood, high-fashion, celebrity, etc., by 1939.
Jamieson's 1825 supplement to his "Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language" has glamour-gift "the power of enchantment; metaph. applied to female fascination." Jamieson's original edition (1808) looked to Old Norse for the source of the word. Zoëga's Old Icelandic dictionary has glám-sýni "illusion," probably from the same root as gleam. - glamour (v.)
- 1814, "to enchant, charm, bewitch," from glamour (n.). Related: Glamoured; glamouring.
中文词源
glamour（魅力）：使用拉丁语“魔咒”的法术
英语单词glamour与grammar（语法）有很大关系。在中世纪，大部分欧洲 人都不识字，只有少数僧侣才会读写拉丁语。因此，普通百姓对这些能读书写字的僧侣们抱有一种敬畏之心，将他们当初掌握了神奇魔力的术士，将他们所使用的拉 丁语言文字当成魔咒，而原本表示“语法、文法”的单词grammar自然被看成了使用这种魔咒的法术，因此产生了单词gramarye（魔术、妖法）。到 了苏格兰人的嘴中，gramarye被说成了glamer、glamor或glamour，最后又回到英语中，变成了英语单词glamour，表示“魔 力、魅力”。
glamour：['glæmə] n.魔力，魅力vt.迷惑，迷住
gramarye：['græməri] n.妖法，魔术
grammar：['græmə] n.语法，文法，语法书
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：glamour 词源，glamour 含义。
来自grammar的拼写变体，来自grammar的古义，神秘学。引申义着迷，魅惑，魅力。
说来有趣，glamour 一词的产生和gramruar育奠大的关系曲
古人对词常有一种神秘感。古埃及僧侣为了保住权力把读写技能当作神宙的一项秘密。平民对这种技能则怀有盲目的敬畏。甚至到了16世纪许多英国人还把它同巫术相联系。那时候拉丁文是少数有文化教养的人使用并垄断的语言。书都用拉丁文来写，知识分子用拉丁文进行交际。一位著名的德国教授仅仅因为用英语阱课而被解职除名。拉丁文是中等学校的主课，而拉丁文语法(grunmar)则是最主要的主课。1 6世纪前后的gramrnar school即是此一类型的学校。在耳不识丁的下层人民眼中语法成了一门神秘学( occult learning)，grammar也成了富于魅力而不可思议的字眼。
究其根源，grammar系源自希腊语gram matike，并从拉丁语gram uzatica演化而来。以后在苏格兰方言中grammar一词逐渐讹变为glamour，并被赋予“魅力”或“魔力”之意。英国苏格兰小说家司各特（Sir Walter Scott，17711 - 1832）在他的小说中把它用于习语cast the glamour而使之得以推广，并最终成为现代英语中通用的一个词。因此，我们可以说glamour原为grammar的苏格兰语变体。与glamour并行发展的是法语中的grimoire，它却获得了“魔书”、“天书”等义。20世纪40年代美国英语又据glamour创造了glamour boy（迷人男子）和glamour girl（迷人女子）等流行词语。
