英语词汇expedite的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	expedite
词源	expedite. An old story that no one has been able to prove or disprove holds that the Latin word expedire, the ancestor of ex- pedite, derives from the name of St. Expeditus, a soldier in the Roman Army before being martyred at Melitene, Armenia, in the fourth century. St. Expeditus, it seems, was the advocate of urgent causes. The O.E.D. merely says that the Latin word expe- dire means “to free a person’s feet (ped) from fetters, to help forward, to dispatch, send off.”
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