narrate的词源
英文词源
- narrate
- narrate: [17] To narrate something is etymologically to ‘make it known’. The word comes from Latin narrāre ‘give an account of’, which was derived from gnārus ‘knowing’ and is hence related to English ignore, recognize, and, distantly, know. English acquired the derived noun narration [15] considerably earlier than the verb (which was widely condemned in the 18th century for its inelegance), and it could be that narrate represents a back-formation from narration rather than a new introduction directly from the Latin verb.
=> ignore, know, recognize - narrate (v.)
- 1748, back-formation from narration or else from Latin narratus, past participle of narrare "to tell, relate, recount" (see narration). "Richardson and Johnson call it Scottish" [OED], a stigma which kept it from general use until 19c. A few mid-17c. instances are traceable to Spanish narrar. Related: Narrated; narrating.
中文词源
来自拉丁语narrare,告知，解释，来自PIE*gno,去知道，了解，词源同can,know.引申词义叙述，告知。字母g脱落，-r,拉丁语现在不定式格，比较affair,fact.
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：narrate 词源，narrate 含义。
单词ignore（忽视），i-是否定前缀，相当于前缀in-；词根-gnor-指“知道”；-e为后缀；所以“忽视”的本义是“不知道”。当词根gnor的g-音脱落之后，形成了词根-nar-，也表“知道”，即narrate（叙述）的词根，因此“叙述”的本义是“使知道”。
