英语词汇pyrotechny的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	pyrotechny
词源	pyrotechny n. 1570s, "the management and mechanical application of fire" (a sense now obsolete); 1630s, "the fabrication of fireworks for military and commercial purposes," from pyro- "fire" + Latinized form of Greek tekhnē "art" (see techno-). Entries linking to pyrotechny pyro- before vowels pyr-, word-forming element form meaning "fire," from Greek pyr (genitive pyros) "fire, funeral fire," also symbolic of terrible things, rages, "rarely as an image of warmth and comfort" [Liddell & Scott], from PIE root paewr- "fire." Pyriphlegethon, literally "fire-blazing," was one of the rivers of Hell. techno- word-forming element meaning "art, craft, skill," later "technical, technology," from Latinized form of Greek tekhno-, combining form of tekhnē "art, skill, craft in work; method, system, an art, a system or method of making or doing," from PIE teks-na- "craft" (of weaving or fabricating), from suffixed form of root *teks- "to weave," also "to fabricate." updated on February 18, 2021
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pyrotechny n.