英语词汇extraterrestrial的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

extraterrestrial; E.T. H. G. Wells first recorded, and perhaps invented, extraterrestrial as an adjective at the turn of the cen- tury. Meaning “outside the limits of the earth,” the word was first used as a noun by American author L. Sprague de Camp in the May 1939 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, the author in- venting the abbreviation e.t. in the same article. E.T. has since become the name of the extraterrestrial being in the popular film E.T. Wells, or someone before him, may have patterned extraterrestrial on extraterritorial, which dates back to at least 1665.

词汇	extraterrestrial
词源	extraterrestrial; E.T. H. G. Wells first recorded, and perhaps invented, extraterrestrial as an adjective at the turn of the cen- tury. Meaning “outside the limits of the earth,” the word was first used as a noun by American author L. Sprague de Camp in the May 1939 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, the author in- venting the abbreviation e.t. in the same article. E.T. has since become the name of the extraterrestrial being in the popular film E.T. Wells, or someone before him, may have patterned extraterrestrial on extraterritorial, which dates back to at least 1665.
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