prudent的词源

英文词源

prudent: prudent: [14] Prudent and provident are as it were two separate goes at the same word. Both were formed from the Latin prefix prō- ‘before, in advance’ and vidēns, the present participle of vidēre ‘see’ (and hence etymologically mean ‘foreseeing’). The pre-classical coinage was contracted to prūdēns ‘farsighted, wise’, which reached English via Old French prudent. Provident comes from the uncontracted prōvidēns, part of the paradigm of prōvidēre (source of English provide).
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prudent (adj.): late 14c., from Old French prudent "with knowledge, deliberate" (c. 1300), from Latin prudentem (nominative prudens) "knowing, skilled, sagacious, circumspect;" rarely in literal sense "foreseeing;" contraction of providens, present participle of providere "to foresee" (see provide). Related: Prudently.

来自古法语prudent,审慎的，谨慎的，来自（缩写自）拉丁语providere,预见，提前看到，提前准备，词源同provide.引申词义精明的。

该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：prudent 词源，prudent 含义。

先看单词provident（有先见之明的），前缀pro-表“在前，提前”；词根vid（又写作vis）表“看”，如evident（明显的）、supervise（监督）等；本意为“提前看到的”，引申为“有先见之明的”。prudent和它同源，其中"d"是词根vid的缩略。