helicopter的词源
英文词源
- helicopter
- helicopter: [19] The term helicopter was coined in the mid-19th century from Greek hélix ‘spiral’ (source of English helix [16] and helical [17]) and Greek ptéron ‘wing’ (source of English pterodactyl and related to feather). The French were first in the field with hélicoptère, and the earliest record of the word in English, in 1861, was the barely anglicized helicoptere, but by the late 1880s the modern form helicopter was being used. (These 19th-century helicopters were of course a far cry from the present-day rotorblade- driven craft, which were introduced in the late 1930s; as their name suggests, they were lifted – or more usually not lifted – by rotating spiral-shaped aerofoils.)
=> feather, helical, helix, pterodactyl - helicopter (n.)
- 1861, from French hélicoptère "device for enabling airplanes to rise perpendicularly," thus "flying machine propelled by screws." The idea was to gain lift from spiral aerofoils, and it didn't work. Used by Jules Verne and the Wright Brothers, the word transferred to helicopters in the modern sense when those were developed in the 1920s. From Greek helix (genitive helikos) "spiral" (see helix) + pteron "wing" (see pterodactyl). Nativized in Flemish as wentelwiek "with rotary vanes."
中文词源
helico-,螺旋，-pter,翅膀，词源同feather,pterodactyl.比喻用法。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：helicopter 词源，helicopter 含义。
来源于希腊语： helic旋 + -o-中缀 + pter翼 → 有旋转的翼
该词的字面含义为“有旋转翅膀的机器”，词根helic-表“螺旋”，如helical（螺旋状的）、helix（螺旋）；-o-为连接字母；词根pter-来自希腊语“翅膀”，常见于专业词汇，如dipteral（双翼的）、pterosaur（翼龙，即有翅膀的恐龙）、pterodactyl（翼手龙，即手(dactyl-)的部位长翅膀）、archaeopteryx（始祖鸟，即最早有翅膀的鸟）等。pter-谐“扑腾”，以此助记“翅膀”。
