lesser的词源

英文词源

lesser (adj.)

early 13c., a double comparative, from less + -er (2). Johnson calls it "a barbarous corruption of less, formed by the vulgar from the habit of terminating comparatives in -er." As an adverb from 1590s; now generally poetic or obsolete except in expression lesser-known (1813).

中文词源

lesser：较少的，次要的

less,用于little的比较级，-er,比较级后缀。

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