pessimism的词源

英文词源

pessimism: pessimism: [18] The first English writer on record as using pessimism was the poet Coleridge, in the 1790s. But he employed it for the ‘worst possible state’. The modern sense ‘expecting the worst’ did not emerge until the early 19th century. The word was probably coined first in French, and was based on Latin pessimus ‘worst’.
pessimism (n.): 1794 "worst condition possible," borrowed (by Coleridge) from French pessimisme, formed (on model of French optimisme) from Latin pessimus "worst," originally "bottom-most," from PIE *ped-samo-, superlative of root *pes- "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)). As a name given to the doctrines of Schopenhauer, Hartmann, etc., that this is the worst possible world, or that everything tends toward evil, it is first recorded 1835, from German pessimismus (Schopenhauer, 1819). The attempt to make a verb of it as pessimize (1862) did not succeed.

来源于拉丁语形容词mal.us(坏的)最高级形式pessim.us的词干-pessim-。

词根词缀： -pessim- + -ism名词词尾,主义

同源词：pessimist, pessimistic反义词：optimism (n.) 乐观,乐观主义

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来自拉丁语pessimus,最底部的，最坏的，来自PIE*ped,脚，词源同foot,biped.-im,最高级后词，词源同maximum,optimism.-ism,主义，思想。由脚引申词义底部，底下，后引申词义悲观，悲观主义。