英语词汇love的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

love. A person who fails to score in tennis might be said to be playing for the love of the game. According to this theory, which is widely supported, love, for “zero in tennis,” comes from the expression “play for the money or play for love [noth- ing].” The idea here is similar to that behind the word amateur, which comes from the Latin amare, “to love,” and strictly speaking means a person who loves a game or subject. But there is another explanation for the term love in tennis, an ex- pression used since at least 1742. Love, for goose egg, or “noth- ing,” may have been born when the English imported the game of tennis from France. Because a zero resembles an egg, the French used the expression l’oeuf, “egg,” for “no score.” English players, in mispronouncing the French expression, may have gradually changed it to love.

词汇	love
词源	love. A person who fails to score in tennis might be said to be playing for the love of the game. According to this theory, which is widely supported, love, for “zero in tennis,” comes from the expression “play for the money or play for love [noth- ing].” The idea here is similar to that behind the word amateur, which comes from the Latin amare, “to love,” and strictly speaking means a person who loves a game or subject. But there is another explanation for the term love in tennis, an ex- pression used since at least 1742. Love, for goose egg, or “noth- ing,” may have been born when the English imported the game of tennis from France. Because a zero resembles an egg, the French used the expression l’oeuf, “egg,” for “no score.” English players, in mispronouncing the French expression, may have gradually changed it to love.
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