英语词汇charlatan的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

charlatan. Charlatan can be traced to the Italian ciarlatano, for “a quack,” but a notorious quack dentist may have helped it along. A. M. Latan, it is said, was a 19th-century Frenchman who dressed in a long-robed exotic costume and often toured Paris in a magnificent dispensary car, a horn player heralding his approach. Spectators would cry out “Voila le char de Latan” (“There is Latan’s car”), the words le char de latan popularizing charlatan. Most likely Latan was an assumed name, chosen to accompany his char, but the mischievous Frenchman probably strengthened the meaning of a word that had been used in En- glish since the early 17th century.

词汇	charlatan
词源	charlatan. Charlatan can be traced to the Italian ciarlatano, for “a quack,” but a notorious quack dentist may have helped it along. A. M. Latan, it is said, was a 19th-century Frenchman who dressed in a long-robed exotic costume and often toured Paris in a magnificent dispensary car, a horn player heralding his approach. Spectators would cry out “Voila le char de Latan” (“There is Latan’s car”), the words le char de latan popularizing charlatan. Most likely Latan was an assumed name, chosen to accompany his char, but the mischievous Frenchman probably strengthened the meaning of a word that had been used in En- glish since the early 17th century.
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