negotiate的词源

英文词源

negotiate: negotiate: [16] The etymological notion underlying negotiate is of ‘not being at leisure’, and hence of ‘being busy’. The word comes ultimately from Latin negōtium ‘business’, which was a compound formed from the negative particle neg and ōtium ‘leisure’ (source of English otiose [18]). From it was derived the verb negōtiārī ‘do business’, which passed into English as negotiate.

There is some early evidence in the derivatives negotiation and negotiator that the original Latin sense of the word survived into English, but in the verb itself it had already developed via ‘transact business’ and ‘hold business discussions’ to ‘hold discussions’ generally.
=> otiose
negotiate (v.): "to communicate in search of mutual agreement," 1590s, back-formation from negotiation, or else from Latin negotiatus, past participle of negotiari. In the sense of "tackle successfully" (1862), it at first meant "to clear on horseback a hedge, fence, or other obstacle" and "originated in the hunting-field; those who hunt the fox like also to hunt jocular verbal novelties" [Gowers, 1965]. Related: Negotiated; negotiating.

来自negotiation的回构词。

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

一个人在谈判过程中，比如商人在谈判一笔大的生意时，心理状态往往有几分紧张不安，表示“谈判”的negotiate 一词本身就带有此一含义。其拉丁语词源negotium由neg‘not’和otium‘ease’组成，字面含义就是not at ease（紧张，不安）。