英语词汇sewer的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	sewer
词源	sewer [ME] This initially meant a watercourse to drain marshy land. The source is Old Northern French seuwiere ‘channel to drain the overflow from a fish pond’, based on Latin ex- ‘out of’ and aqua ‘water’. Sewage developed from sewer in the mid 19th century.
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