indolent的词源

英文词源

indolent: indolent: [18] Historically, indolent means ‘feeling no pain’ – indeed, that is how it was used as a technical medical term in English in the 17th and 18th centuries. It comes from late Latin indolens, which was based on the Latin verb dolere ‘suffer pain’ (source also of English dolour [13] and doleful [13]). English took the term directly from Latin, but meanwhile in French indolent had broadened out in meaning via ‘insensitive’ to ‘inactive, lethargic, lazy’, and that is the basis of the current English use of the adjective, acquired in the early 18th century.
=> doleful, dolour
indolent (adj.): 1660s, "painless," from Late Latin indolentem (see indolence). Sense of "living easily" is 1710, from French indolent. Related: Indolently.

in-,不，非，-dol,伤心的，悲伤的，词源同condole,doleful.即没有悲伤的，后引申词义不用忍受痛苦的，不用尝试做事的，懒惰的。

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前缀in-指否定；词根-dol-指“痛苦”，来自拉丁语dolere（承受痛苦），同源词还有：condole（慰问），doleful（悲哀的）等；字面义“不受痛苦的”，懒惰之人安于闲适，不愿经受苦痛。