mattress的词源

英文词源

mattress

mattress: [13] Etymologically, a mattress is something ‘thrown’ down on the floor to lie on. The word comes via Old French materas and Italian materasso from Arabic matrah ‘mat, cushion’, a derivative of the verb taraha ‘throw’.

mattress (n.)

late 13c., from Old French materas (12c., Modern French matelas), from Italian materasso and directly from Medieval Latin matracium, borrowed in Sicily from Arabic al-matrah "the cushion" (also source of Spanish almadraque "mattress," Provençal almatrac), literally "the thing thrown down," from taraha "he threw (down)."

中文词源

mattress：床垫，褥垫，垫子

来自古法语materas,来自拉丁语matracium,借自阿拉伯语al-matrah,垫子，字面意思即扔下去的，扔在地上的，来自al,定冠词the,-ma,方位格前缀，词源同mosque,taraha,扔下，词源同tarot,塔罗牌。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：mattress 词源，mattress 含义。