plankton的词源

英文词源

plankton: plankton: [19] The ultimate source of plankton is Greek plázein ‘hit’, a descendant of the same base as produced English apoplexy, plague, and plectrum. The link between these two unlikelysounding relatives is that something that is hit moves or wanders, and plankton are minute organisms that wander or drift in the ocean. The Greek derivative plagtón meant ‘wanderer’, and the application to ‘plankton’ was first made in German in the 1880s.
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plankton (n.): 1891, from German Plankton (1887), coined by German physiologist Viktor Hensen (1835-1924) from Greek plankton, neuter of planktos "wandering, drifting," verbal adjective from plazesthai "to wander, drift," from plazein "to drive astray," from PIE root *plak- (2) "to strike, hit" (see plague (n.)). Related: Planktonic.

来自德语Plankton,由德国物理学家Viktor hensen根据希腊语创造出来的词，来自希腊语plankton,漂流物，漂浮物，来自plazein,漂浮，浮动，漂离，可能来自PIE*plak,击，打，词源同plague,plangent.

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