英文词源
- echelon
- echelon: see scale
- echelon (n.)
- 1796, echellon, "step-like arrangement of troops," from French échelon "level, echelon," literally "rung of a ladder," from Old French eschelon, from eschiele "ladder," from Late Latin scala "stair, slope," from Latin scalae (plural) "ladder, steps," from PIE *skand- "to spring, leap" (see scan (v.)). Sense of "level, subdivision" is from World War I.
中文词源
来自法语echelon, 来自古法语eschelon, 来自拉丁语scala，梯子，词源同ascend, escalate. 其拼写变化参照check.
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：echelon 词源，echelon 含义。
