英语词汇edify的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	edify
词源	edify [ME] In the Middle Ages to edify was to construct a building. This reflected the word’s origin, Latin aedificare, from aedis ‘house, dwelling’ and facere ‘to make’. It quickly took on the extended sense of ‘building up’ someone in moral or intellectual terms. Aedis also gave us edifice [LME], a formal word for a building.
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