simplify (v.)
"使简单或更简单,从复杂中减少",1650年代,来自法语 simplifier "使更简单"(15世纪),源自中世纪拉丁语 simplificare "简化",源自拉丁语 simplex "简单"(见 simplex) + facere "制造"的组合形式(源自 PIE 词根 *dhe- "设置,放置")。
"使更容易做"的意思来自1759年。不及物动词的意思是"变得不那么复杂",始于1874年。相关词汇: Simplified; simplifying。
simplify 的相关词汇
*dhē-,原始印欧词根,意为“设定,放置”。
它构成以下词汇的全部或部分: abdomen; abscond; affair; affect(第一动词)“在心中留下印象”; affect(第二动词)“假装”; affection; amplify; anathema; antithesis; apothecary; artifact; artifice; beatific; benefice; beneficence; beneficial; benefit; bibliothec; bodega; boutique; certify; chafe; chauffeur; comfit; condiment; confection; confetti; counterfeit; deed; deem; deface; defeasance; defeat; defect; deficient; difficulty; dignify; discomfit; do(动词); doom; -dom; duma; edifice; edify; efface; effect; efficacious; efficient; epithet; facade; face; facet; facial; -facient; facile; facilitate; facsimile; fact; faction(名词1)“政党”; -faction; factitious; factitive; factor; factory; factotum; faculty; fashion; feasible; feat; feature; feckless; fetish; -fic; fordo; forfeit; -fy; gratify; hacienda; hypothecate; hypothesis; incondite; indeed; infect; justify; malefactor; malfeasance; manufacture; metathesis; misfeasance; modify; mollify; multifarious; notify; nullify; office; officinal; omnifarious; orifice; parenthesis; perfect; petrify; pluperfect; pontifex; prefect; prima facie; proficient; profit; prosthesis; prothesis; purdah; putrefy; qualify; rarefy; recondite; rectify; refectory; sacrifice; salmagundi; samadhi; satisfy; sconce; suffice; sufficient; surface; surfeit; synthesis; tay; ticking(名词); theco-; thematic; theme; thesis; verify。
它是以下词汇的假定来源/其存在的证据为:梵语 dadhati “放置,安排”; 阿维斯塔语 dadaiti “他放置”; 古波斯语 ada “他制造”; 赫梯语 dai- “放置”; 希腊语 tithenai “放置,设置,安置”; 拉丁语 facere “做,干; 执行; 带来”; 立陶宛语 dėti “放置”; 波兰语 dziać się “正在发生”; 俄语 delat' “做”; 古高地德语 tuon,德语 tun,古英语 don “做”。
"单一部分的," 1590年代,来自拉丁语 simplex "单一的,简单的,朴素的,未混合的,未复合的," 字面意思是 "一倍的," 来自 PIE 词根 *sem- (1) "一个; 作为一个,与...一起" + *plac- "-倍",来自 PIE 词根 *plek- "编织。" 比较 duplex。
这个名词在语法上的意思可以追溯到1892年,意为 "简单的未复合词",来自拉丁词的含义。 Simplex munditis 是一个拉丁短语,意为 "优雅简单"。
- oversimplify
- simplification