proper的词源

英文词源

proper

proper: [13] Proper originally meant ‘belonging to itself, particular to itself’ (a sense now defunct in English except in certain fossilized contexts, such as the astronomical term proper motion). It comes via Old French propre from Latin prōprius ‘one’s own’, which may have been a lexicalization of the phrase prō prīvō, literally ‘for the inpidual’ (prīvus is the source of English private). The word developed widely in meaning in Latin, but its main modern English senses, ‘correct’ and ‘morally right’, are of later evolution. Appropriate [15] goes back to a late Latin derivative.
=> appropriate, property

proper (adj.)

c. 1300, "adapted to some purpose, fit, apt; commendable, excellent" (sometimes ironic), from Old French propre "own, particular; exact, neat, fitting, appropriate" (11c.), from Latin proprius "one's own, particular to itself," from pro privo "for the inpidual, in particular," from ablative of privus "one's own, inpidual" (see private (adj.)) + pro "for" (see pro-). Related: Properly.

From early 14c. as "belonging or pertaining to oneself; inpidual; intrinsic;" from mid-14c. as "pertaining to a person or thing in particular, special, specific; distinctive, characteristic;" also "what is by the rules, correct, appropriate, acceptable." From early 15c. as "separate, distinct; itself." Meaning "socially appropriate, decent, respectable" is first recorded 1704. Proper name "name belonging to or relating to the person or thing in question," is from late 13c., a sense also preserved in astronomical proper motion (c. 1300). Proper noun is from c. 1500.

中文词源

proper：适当的，恰当的；固有的，特有的

来源于拉丁语形容词proprius(个人的,自己的),经古法语propre派生了英语proper。

-proper-适当的,本身所有的 → proper

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：proper 词源，proper 含义。

proper：个人的，正确的，恰当的，合适的

来自古法语propre,自己的，合适的，来自拉丁语proprius,自己的，来自拉丁短语pro privo,个人所有，来自privus,个人的，私人的，词源同private.引申诸相关词义。