sterile的词源

英文词源

sterile

sterile: [16] Sterile is a word of ancient ancestry, which goes right back to the prehistoric Indo- European base *ster- (source also of Greek stériphos and Gothic stairō ‘infertile’). The Latin descendant of the base was sterilis, acquired by English via French stérile.

sterile (adj.)

mid-15c., "barren," from Middle French stérile "not producing fruit," from Latin sterilis "barren, unproductive, unfruitful; unrequited; unprofitable," from PIE *ster- (1) "stiff, rigid, firm, strong" (see stereo-). Also see torpor. Originally in English with reference to soil; of persons (chiefly females), from 1530s. The sense of "sterilized, free from living germs" is first recorded 1877.

中文词源

sterile：土地贫瘠的，不育的，灭菌的，消毒的

来自拉丁语 sterilis,土地贫瘠的，无收获的，无产出的，来自 PIE*ster,固定的，坚固的，僵 硬的，词源同 stern,stark.后用于比喻义指无生育的，以及杀过菌的，消过毒的。

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