grocery的词源

英文词源

grocery (n.)

mid-15c., "goods sold by a grocer;" earlier the name of the Grocer's Hall in London (early 15c.), from Old French grosserie, from grossier "wholesale merchant" (see grocer). Meaning "a grocer's shop" is by 1803, especially in American English, where its use in that sense restricted the "goods sold by a grocer" meaning to the plural, groceries, by mid-19c.

GROCERY. A grocer's shop. This word is not in the English dictionaries except in the sense of grocer's ware, such as tea, sugar, spice, etc.; in which sense we also use it in the plural. [Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1859]

Self-service groceries were a novelty in 1913 when a Montana, U.S., firm copyrighted the word groceteria (with the ending from cafeteria used in an un-etymological sense) to name them. The term existed through the 1920s.

中文词源

grocery：食品杂货

这个词美国用复数，而英国则常用单数。“食品杂货商”叫“grocer”，不过古时候他倒是一个“批发商”因为grocer在拉丁语中写作grossus，意思是“大量的”。直到14世纪grocer还仍指“只大量出售商品的商人”。

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