grassroots的词源

英文词源

grass roots (n.)

1650s, from grass + root (n.). The image of grass roots as the most fundamental level of anything is from 1901; U.S. political sense of "the rank and file of the electorate" (also grassroots) is attested from 1912; as an adjective by 1918.

中文词源

grassroots：基层群众；基本事实

词根词缀： grass草 + roots根 → 草根

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