negative的词源
英文词源
- negative
- negative: see renegade
- negative (adj.)
- c. 1400, "expressing denial," from Old French negatif (13c.) and directly from Latin negativus "that which denies," from negat-, past participle stem of negare "deny, say no" (see deny). Meaning "expressing negation" is from c. 1500; that of "characterized by absence" is from 1560s. Algebraic sense is from 1670s. The electricity sense is from 1755.
Negative Capability, that is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. [John Keats, letter, Dec. 21, 1817]
Related: Negatively. - negative (n.)
- late 14c., "a prohibition; absence, nonexistence; opposite," from Old French negatif and directly from Latin negativus (see negative (adj.)). Meaning "a negative statement" is from 1560s. As a response, "I refuse, disagree, no," from 1945. Meaning "a negative quality" is from 1640s. In mathematics, "a negative number," from 1706. Photographic sense first recorded 1853.
中文词源
来自negate,否定。引申义负的，负极，消极的等。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：negative 词源，negative 含义。
negative：否定的；反面的，消极的；负的，阴性的
词根词缀： -neg-否认 + -ative形容词词尾
