词汇 | property |
词源 | property [ME] Latin proprius, ‘one’s own, special, particular’, source of proper [ME], developed an abstract noun proprietas ‘ownership’ which is not only the source of property, but of proprietary [LME], proprietor [M16th], and propriety [LME]. Appropriate [LME], from a Latin word using ad- ‘to’, here in the sense ‘making [one’s own]’ is from the same root. |
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