pomp的词源

英文词源

pomp

pomp: [14] Greek pompé meant literally ‘sending’ (it was derived from the verb pémpein ‘send’). But it came to be used metaphorically for a ‘solemn procession or parade’ (as being something that was ‘sent out’ on its way), and hence for the concomitant ‘display’ or ‘ostentation’, and passed with these senses into Latin as pompa. They survived into English, but ‘procession’ has gradually died out.

pomp (n.)

c. 1300, from Old French pompe "pomp, magnificence" (13c.) and directly from Latin pompa "procession, pomp," from Greek pompe "solemn procession, display," literally "a sending," from pempein "to send." In Church Latin, used in deprecatory sense for "worldly display, vain show."

中文词源

pomp：盛况，盛典，炫耀，排场，气派

来自古法语pompe,盛况，盛典，壮观的仪式，来自拉丁语pompa,游行，行列，来自希腊语pompe,庄严的仪式，行列，古希腊时期的重要节日，如祭祀酒神Dionysus,来自pempein,派遣，送出，行进。后词义贬义化为炫耀，展示，讲排场等。

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