英语词汇lucus a non lucendo的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

lucus a non lucendo. An etymological contradiction, an ab- surd conclusion or explanation. The Latin words literally mean “grove from not giving light,” that is, a grove (lucus) is so called because it doesn’t shine (lucere). The Roman grammarian Hon- oratus Maurus Servius invented the term to illustrate how words are falsely derived from those having a contrary sense (for example, deriving ludus, Latin for “school,” from ludere, Latin for “to play.” Addison gave another example in the Specta- tor: “One Tryphiodorus . . . composed an Epick Poem . . . of four and twenty books, having entirely banished the letter A [Alpha] from his first book, which was called Alpha [as Lucus a non Lucendo] because there was not an Alpha in it.”

词汇	lucus a non lucendo
词源	lucus a non lucendo. An etymological contradiction, an ab- surd conclusion or explanation. The Latin words literally mean “grove from not giving light,” that is, a grove (lucus) is so called because it doesn’t shine (lucere). The Roman grammarian Hon- oratus Maurus Servius invented the term to illustrate how words are falsely derived from those having a contrary sense (for example, deriving ludus, Latin for “school,” from ludere, Latin for “to play.” Addison gave another example in the Specta- tor: “One Tryphiodorus . . . composed an Epick Poem . . . of four and twenty books, having entirely banished the letter A [Alpha] from his first book, which was called Alpha [as Lucus a non Lucendo] because there was not an Alpha in it.”
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