probable的词源

英文词源

probable: probable: [14] Latin probāre meant ‘test, approve, prove’ (it is the source of English probate [15], probation [15], probe [16], and prove). From it was derived the adjective probābilis ‘provable’, hence ‘likely’. It passed into English via Old French probable.
=> probate, probation, probe, prove, reprobate
probable (adj.): late 14c., from Old French probable "provable, demonstrable" (14c.), from Latin probabilis "worthy of approval, pleasing, agreeable, acceptable; provable, that may be assumed to be believed, credible," from probare "to try, to test" (see prove). Probable cause as a legal term is attested from 1670s.

来源于拉丁语中由动词probare(证实,批准)派生的probabilis(可证实的)。

词根词缀： -prob-证实,批准 + -able形容词词尾,被动意义

同源词：probate, probe, prove, reprobate 辨异：probable 十有八九的可能性 likely 十有五六七的可能性 possible 十有二三的可能性

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来自拉丁语probare,检验，证实，词源同prove,probe.引申词义可检验的，可能的。