英语词汇shrove的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	shrove
词源	shrove n. "shrift, shriving," 1570s, used only in ecclesiastical phrases, shortened from Shrovetide (early 15c., Shrof-tide), "the three days before Ash Wednesday," a time of confession, from schrof-, which is related to schrifen (see shrive). Shrove Tuesday (c. 1500, earlier Shrof-dai, mid-15c.) is from practice of celebration and merrymaking before confession at the start of Lent. Entries linking to shrove shrive v. Middle English shriven "make confession; administer the sacrament of penance to," from Old English scrifan "assign, prescribe, ordain, decree; impose penance, hear confession; have regard for, care for," apparently originally "to write" (strong, past tense scraf, past participle scrifen), from Proto-Germanic skriban (source also of Old Saxon scriban, Old Frisian skriva "write; impose penance;" Old Dutch scrivan, Dutch schrijven, German schreiben "to write, draw, paint;" Danish skrifte "confess"), an early borrowing from Latin scribere "to write" (from PIE root skribh- "to cut"), which in Old English and Scandinavian developed further to "confess, hear or receive confession." updated on September 21, 2022
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shrove n.