lukewarm的词源
英文词源
- lukewarm
- lukewarm: [14] Lukewarm is a compound adjective based on the now obsolete Middle English luke ‘tepid’. It is not altogether clear where this came from, but it is generally assumed to be a derivative of the also now obsolete lew ‘(fairly) warm’, with perhaps a diminutive suffix. Lew goes back to an Old English hlēow ‘warm’, a variant of which became modern English lee ‘shelter’. It is related to Latin calor ‘heat’ (source of English calorie), calidus ‘hot’ (source of English caudle, cauldron, and chowder), and calēre ‘be hot’ (source of English nonchalant).
=> calorie, cauldron, chowder, lee, nonchalant - lukewarm (adj.)
- late 14c., from luke + warm (adj.). Figurative sense of "lacking in zeal" (of persons or their actions) is from 1520s. Related: Lukewarmly; lukewarmness.
中文词源
luke,温和，来自PIE*kele,暖和，词源同calorie,lee,warm,暖和的，实质上表达的为同一个意思。引申词义微温的，不冷不热的。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：lukewarm 词源，lukewarm 含义。
这其实是个复合形容词，由luke加warm组成。luke在中世纪英语作louke，源于荷兰语leuk，意思就是tepid（微温的）。既然luke本身已足以表示lukewarm的意义，再加上warm就似乎显得多余了。然而，这并不影响lukewarm 一词的通用。
