英语词汇attic的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

attic; attic salt. Both the attic in one’s house and attic salt, pointed wit, came to us from the same source, the Greek word Attikos, an Athenian, or citizen of Athens. Salt was a common term for wit and the Athenians were noted for their elegant turns of thought, which inspired the Romans to coin the ex- pression sal atticus (“attic salt”). The Athenians had no attics in their houses as we know them, but the Attic (Athenian) style of architecture featured decorative walls at the tops of buildings. When storage rooms were built behind such deco- rative walls centuries later, they were called attics, after the walls.

词汇	attic
词源	attic; attic salt. Both the attic in one’s house and attic salt, pointed wit, came to us from the same source, the Greek word Attikos, an Athenian, or citizen of Athens. Salt was a common term for wit and the Athenians were noted for their elegant turns of thought, which inspired the Romans to coin the ex- pression sal atticus (“attic salt”). The Athenians had no attics in their houses as we know them, but the Attic (Athenian) style of architecture featured decorative walls at the tops of buildings. When storage rooms were built behind such deco- rative walls centuries later, they were called attics, after the walls.
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