英文词源
- regret
- regret: [14] The origins of regret are not altogether clear, but it may mean etymologically ‘weep over again’. It was borrowed from Old French regreter, which could have been based on a prehistoric Germanic verb *grētan ‘weep’ (source of archaic English greet ‘weep’).
- regret (v.)
- "to look back with distress or sorrowful longing; to grieve for on remembering," late 14c., from Old French regreter "long after, bewail, lament someone's death; ask the help of" (Modern French regretter), from re-, intensive prefix (see re-), + -greter, possibly from Frankish or some other Germanic source (compare Old English grætan "to weep;" Old Norse grata "to weep, groan"), from Proto-Germanic *gretan "weep." "Not found in other Romance languages, and variously explained" [Century Dictionary].
Related: Regretted; regretting. Replaced Old English ofþyncan, from of- "off, away," here denoting opposition, + þyncan "seem, seem fit" (as in methinks). - regret (n.)
- "pain or distress in the mind at something done or left undone," 1530s, from the verb, or from Middle French regret, back-formation from regreter (see regret (v.)).
中文词源
来源于古法语regreter(因死亡而悲痛)。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：regret 词源，regret 含义。
re-,表强调，-gret,哭喊，呼叫，词源同 greet.引申词义遗憾，懊悔。
re-,表强调，-gret,哭喊，呼叫，词源同 greet.引申词义遗憾，懊悔。
