英语词汇ceiling的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	ceiling
词源	ceiling [ME] The reason ceiling has the -ing ending usually associated with action is that it was originally an action, from to ceil meaning ‘line (the interior of a room) with plaster or panelling’, perhaps from Latin celare, ‘conceal’. The sense describing the upper interior surface of a room, dates from the mid 16th century.
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