英语词汇scampi的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	scampi
词源	scampi n. "prawns eaten as a delicacy," by 1930, popular from 1960s, plural of Italian scampo "prawn," a word from Venetian dialect, ultimately from Greek kampē, also "caterpillar, silkworm, grub," probably all in the sense of "the curved animal," literally "a bending, bow, curvature" (see campus). Entries linking to scampi campus n. "college grounds," 1774, from Latin campus "flat land, field," from Proto-Italic kampo- "field," a word of uncertain origin. De Vaan finds cognates in Greek kampē "a bending, bow, curvature," etc., if the original sense of campus was "depression, curve" (see jamb), and concludes the source in PIE kamp- "could well be a European substratum word from agricultural terminology." First used in college sense at Princeton. updated on January 15, 2022
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scampi n.