purloin的词源

英文词源

purloin

purloin: see long

purloin (v.)

mid-14c., "remove, misappropriate," from Anglo-French purloigner "remove," Old French porloigner "put off, retard, delay, drag out; be far away," from por- (from Latin pro- "forth;" see pro-) + Old French loing "far," from Latin longe, from longus (see long (adj.)). Sense of "to steal" (1540s) is a development in English. Related: Purloined; purloining.

中文词源

purloin：偷窃，擅自使用

pur-,向前，-loin,长的，词源同long,lunge,lounge.原义为延长，拖延，后引申词义偷窃，擅自使用。

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