obscure的词源

英文词源

obscure: obscure: see sky
obscure (adj.): c. 1400, "dark," figuratively "morally unenlightened; gloomy," from Old French obscur, oscur "dark, clouded, gloomy; dim, not clear" (12c.) and directly from Latin obscurus "dark, dusky, shady," figuratively "unknown; unintelligible; hard to discern; from insignificant ancestors," from ob "over" (see ob-) + -scurus "covered," from PIE *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (see sky). Related: Obscurely.
obscure (v.): early 15c., "to cover (something), cloud over," from obscure (adj.) or else from Middle French obscurer, from Latin obscurare "to make dark, darken, obscure," from obscurus. Related: Obscured; obscuring.

来自拉丁语obscurus,黑暗的，遮盖的，来自ob-,在上，表强调，-scurus,遮盖的，来自PIE*skeu,遮盖，隐藏，词源同sky,house,hide.引申词义使费解，模糊。

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前缀ob表“over，在...上面”；词根scu表“覆盖”，这就必须提到另一个熟悉的单词sky（天空），它们俩来源于同一个表示“覆盖”的印欧词根。sky的本义和乐府名句“天似穹庐，笼盖四野”暗合。obscure字面义“上头被遮盖”，引申为“昏暗的”。