haughty的词源
英文词源
- haughty
- haughty: [16] To be haughty is to be ‘above oneself’, or, to put it another way, to be ‘on one’s high horse’. For etymologically, haughty means simply ‘high’. It is an alteration of an earlier, now dead English adjective haught, which was borrowed from Old French haut ‘high’, a descendant of Latin altus (whence English altitude).
=> altitude - haughty (adj.)
- "proud and disdainful," 1520s, a redundant extension of haught (q.v.) "high in one's own estimation" by addition of -y (2) on model of might/mighty, naught/naughty, etc. Middle English also had hautif in this sense (mid-15c., from Old French hautif), and hautein "proud, haughty, arrogant; presumptuous" (c. 1300), from Old French hautain. Related: Haughtily.
中文词源
来自法语haut,高的，高等级的，来自拉丁语altus,高的，词源同altitude,exalt.插入字母h,字母l软化在u，拼写受height影响。由高的引申词义高傲的，傲慢的。
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它来自拉丁语altus（高），其词根alt-"高"较重要，如altitude（高度），altar（圣坛）；比较 aught 和 alt 的发音亦很相似，单词haughty的首字母h是后加上去的，这是由于受到了high的同源词的影响，这里简化为受到high的影响。高傲高傲，因为高，所以傲。
