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contour词源

发布于:2025-07-05 00:22浏览量:152文/优校网

英文词源

contour (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1660s, a term in painting and sculpture, from French contour "circumference, outline," from Italian and Medieval Latin contornare "to go around," from Latin com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + tornare "to turn (on a lathe);" see turn (v.).

First recorded application to topography is from 1769. Earlier the word was used to mean "bedspread, quilt" (early 15c.) in reference to its falling over the sides of the mattress. Related: Contoured. Contour line in geography is from 1844.

中文词源

contour:轮廓

con-, 强调。-tour, 转,词源同turn, tourism.

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

contour:轮廓,外形 

词根词缀: con-一起 + -tour-迂回,转