minority的词源
英文词源
- minority (n.)
- 1530s, "condition of being smaller," from Middle French minorité (15c.), or directly from Medieval Latin minoritatem (nominative minoritas), from Latin minor (see minor (adj.)). Meaning "state of being under legal age" is from 1540s; that of "smaller number or part" is from 1736. The meaning "group of people separated from the rest of a community by race, religion, language, etc." is from 1919, originally in an Eastern European context.
中文词源
来自minor,较小的，较少的，-ity,名词后缀。引申词义少数派，少数民族。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：minority 词源，minority 含义。
来自minor,较小的，较少的，-ity,名词后缀。引申词义少数派，少数民族。
词根词缀： -min-小 + -or形容词词尾 + -ity名词词尾
