pillory的词源

英文词源

pillory (n.)

late 13c. (attested in Anglo-Latin from late 12c.), from Old French pilori "pillory" (mid-12c.), related to Medieval Latin pilloria, of uncertain origin, perhaps a diminutive of Latin pila "pillar, stone barrier" (see pillar), but OED finds this proposed derivation "phonologically unsuitable."

pillory (v.)

c. 1600, from pillory (n.). Figurative sense of "expose publicly to ridicule or abuse" is from 1690s. Related: Pilloried.

中文词源

pillory：木枷，公开批评，抨击

来自古法语pilori,木枷，枷锁，可能来自拉丁语pila,柱子，词源同pillar,pole.原指在柱子上挂枷示众，引申词义公开批评，抨击。

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