英文词源
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- size
- size: [13] The etymological notion underlying size is of ‘settling’ something, of fixing an amount. The word is a curtailed version of assize, which went back ultimately to Latin assidēre, literally ‘sit beside someone’. By the time it reached English, via Old French, it had acquired connotations of ‘sitting down to make a judgment on something’, such as a law case (hence the meaning of English assize).
Other matters decided on in this way included the standardization of amounts (of taxes, for example, or food), and this led to the word size being used for ‘dimension’. Size ‘gum’ [15] may be the same word, but the nature of the relationship between the two is unclear.
=> assize, sit
中文词源
来自法语。-cout同consut, 前缀con-,集合，词根sut,缝合，见suture,缝合伤口。原指缝制衣服，后指甲胃，后纸装备。原义保存在单词couture,服装。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：accouterments 词源，accouterments 含义。
