英语词汇babe的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

babe; baby. Babe was once the standard English word for child, deriving from the Middle English baban, an imitative nursery word in origin—that is, similar to the cries of an infant. Infant sounds also give us “mamma” and “poppa” and the Latin mamma, breast, from which all we mammals take our name. Baby is just a diminutive of babe and was once used as a word for doll. Baby as a term of endearment for a sweetheart, male or female, doesn’t seem to go back further than 1901 in America, though it may have arisen a little earlier in fast English sporting circles, and baby for a tough guy (“That baby packed some punch”) dates back only to the Roaring Twenties. The most fa- mous example of Babe as a pet name for a boy is baseball great babe (George Herman) ruth (1895–1948). The nickname is often used in the South as a familiar name for a boy or man, es- pecially the youngest of a family. Babe as a term for a woman (often an attractive woman) is an Americanism first recorded in 1905. See bambino.

词汇	babe
词源	babe; baby. Babe was once the standard English word for child, deriving from the Middle English baban, an imitative nursery word in origin—that is, similar to the cries of an infant. Infant sounds also give us “mamma” and “poppa” and the Latin mamma, breast, from which all we mammals take our name. Baby is just a diminutive of babe and was once used as a word for doll. Baby as a term of endearment for a sweetheart, male or female, doesn’t seem to go back further than 1901 in America, though it may have arisen a little earlier in fast English sporting circles, and baby for a tough guy (“That baby packed some punch”) dates back only to the Roaring Twenties. The most fa- mous example of Babe as a pet name for a boy is baseball great babe (George Herman) ruth (1895–1948). The nickname is often used in the South as a familiar name for a boy or man, es- pecially the youngest of a family. Babe as a term for a woman (often an attractive woman) is an Americanism first recorded in 1905. See bambino.
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