英语词汇ignoramus的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ignoramus. Up until the 17th century ignoramus was just the Latin plural for “We don’t know” and was written by grand ju- ries across the backs of indictments if they thought there wasn’t enough evidence in a case for the accused to be prosecuted. Ig- noramus took on its present meaning in 1615, when George Ruggle wrote a play entitled Ignoramus, after the name of its main character, a lawyer who didn’t know anything about the law. Soon this ignorant fictional lawyer’s name was being ap- plied to any ignorant person, lawyer or not. See ignore.

词汇	ignoramus
词源	ignoramus. Up until the 17th century ignoramus was just the Latin plural for “We don’t know” and was written by grand ju- ries across the backs of indictments if they thought there wasn’t enough evidence in a case for the accused to be prosecuted. Ig- noramus took on its present meaning in 1615, when George Ruggle wrote a play entitled Ignoramus, after the name of its main character, a lawyer who didn’t know anything about the law. Soon this ignorant fictional lawyer’s name was being ap- plied to any ignorant person, lawyer or not. See ignore.
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