patch的词源

英文词源

patch

patch: see piece

patch (v.)

mid-15c., from patch (n.1). Electronics sense of "to connect temporarily" is attested from 1923. Related: Patched; patching.

patch (n.1)

"piece of cloth used to mend another material," late 14c., of obscure origin, perhaps a variant of pece, pieche, from Old North French pieche (see piece (n.)), or from an unrecorded Old English word (but Old English had claðflyhte "a patch"). Phrase not a patch on "nowhere near as good as" is from 1860.

patch (n.2)

"fool, clown," 1540s, perhaps from Italian pazzo "fool," of unknown origin. Possibly from Old High German barzjan "to rave" [Klein]. But Buck says pazzo is originally euphemistic, and from Latin patiens "suffering," in medical use, "the patient." Form perhaps influenced by folk etymology derivation from patch (n.1), on notion of a fool's patched garb.

中文词源

patch：补丁

patch与单词piece同源，因此其含义是“piece of cloth used to mend another material”，也就是“用来修补其它东西的一块儿布”。

piece：[pi:s] n. 块，片，部件 vt. 修补，接合

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patch：小块，斑点，补丁

来自古法语pieche,来自piece方言变体，引申词义小块，斑点，补丁等。插入字母t,比较bake,batch.