immaculate的词源
英文词源
- immaculate
- immaculate: [15] A macula in Latin was a ‘spot’ or ‘stain’ (as well as a ‘hole in a net’, which gave English the mail of chain mail). Hence anything that was immaculātus (an adjective formed with the negative prefix in-) was ‘spotless’ – ‘perfect’.
=> chainmail - immaculate (adj.)
- early 15c., "free from mental or moral pollution, pure," from a figurative use of Latin immaculatus "unstained," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + maculatus "spotted, defiled," past participle of maculare "to spot," from macula "spot, blemish." The literal sense of "spotlessly clean or neat" in English is first attested 1735. Immaculate Conception is late 15c., from Middle French conception immaculée (late 15c.); declared to be an article of faith in 1854.
中文词源
im-,不，非，maculate,有污点的，有瑕疵的。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：immaculate 词源，immaculate 含义。
拉丁语macula指“斑点；网眼”，斑点和网眼的外形类似，都是一小块一小块的样子；它衍生出单词：maculate（有斑点的）、immaculate（无瑕疵的）等；mail（盔甲）也来自该拉丁词，主要指欧洲的锁子甲，它由细小铁环相套而成，整体看像一张大网一样。
