sandal词源

英文词源

sandal

sandal: [14] English acquired sandal from Latin sandalium. This is turn was borrowed from Greek sandálion, a diminutive form of sándalon ‘wooden shoe’, which probably came from a western Asian language. It has no connection with the sandal- of sandalwood [16], which came via medieval Latin sandalum and Greek sántalon or sándanon from Sanskrit candanah.

sandal (n.)

type of shoe, late 14c., from Old French sandale, from Latin sandalium "a slipper, sandal," from Greek sandalion, diminutive of sandalon "sandal," of unknown origin, perhaps from Persian. Related: Sandals.