nuance的词源
英文词源
- nuance (n.)
- 1781, from French nuance "slight difference, shade of color" (17c.), from nuer "to shade," from nue "cloud," from Gallo-Roman *nuba, from Latin nubes "a cloud, mist, vapor," from PIE *sneudh- "fog" (cognates: Avestan snaoda "clouds," Latin obnubere "to veil," Welsh nudd "fog," Greek nython, in Hesychius "dark, dusky"). According to Klein, a reference to "the different colors of the clouds."
- nuance (v.)
- 1886, from nuance (n.). Related: Nuanced.
中文词源
来自法语nuance,细微差别，云影，来自拉丁语nubes,云朵，水气，词源同nebula,nimbus.
引申词义云彩的阴影，云影的细微差别。
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