laconic的词源
英文词源
- laconic
- laconic: [16] The Greek term for an inhabitant of the ancient region of Laconia, in the southern Peloponnese, and of its capital Sparta, was Lákōn. The Spartans were renowned for not using two words where one would do (there is a story that when Philip of Macedon threatened invasion with ‘If I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta to the ground’, the Spartans’ only reply was ‘If’), and so English used the adjective laconic (from Greek Lakōnikós) for ‘sparing of speech’.
- laconic (adj.)
- "concise, abrupt," 1580s, probably via Latin Laconicus, from Greek Lakonikos, from Lakon "person from Lakonia," the district around Sparta in southern Greece in ancient times, whose inhabitants were famously proud of their brevity of speech. When Philip of Macedon threatened them with, "If I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta to the ground," the Spartans' reply was, "If." An earlier form was laconical (1570s). Related: Laconically.
中文词源
laconic（简洁的）：说话惜字如金的斯巴达人
古代斯巴达人崇尚武力，喜欢用拳头解决问题，讨厌夸夸其谈的人，说话时惜字如金，简明扼要，就像军事指令一样。关于斯巴达人的这种说话风格有一个有趣的故事。据说斯巴达城邦附近有个国王曾经给斯巴达发了一封威胁信，要斯巴达人向他俯首称臣，如果（if）不臣服，就要对斯巴达如何如何。斯巴达人的回信就一个字：if。斯巴达人居住的地方叫做“拉科尼亚”（laconia）。因为斯巴达人说话简洁，人们就用形容词laconic（拉科尼亚式的）来表示“简洁的”。
laconic：[lə'kɒnɪk] adj.简洁的，凝炼的，言简意赅的
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：laconic 词源，laconic 含义。
来自希腊语Lakon,地名，斯巴达属地，以说话简练著称。参照电影《三百勇士》。
希腊伯罗奔尼撒半岛( Peloponnesus)东南部有个畜牧山区叫做Laconia，原为古希腊著名奴隶制城邦斯巴达(Sparta)的所在地。古时候该地区的人(即Laconians)曾“说话简洁，措辞精练著称于世。
