英语词汇bespoke的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	bespoke
词源	bespoke adj. "custom or custom-made, made to order," of goods (as distinguished from ready-made), 1755, the same sense is found earlier in bespoken (c. 1600), past-participle adjective from bespeak in its sense of "speak for, arrange beforehand," which is attested in bespeak from 1580s. Now usually of tailored suits. Entries linking to bespoke bespeak v. Middle English bispeken, from Old English besprecan "speak about, speak against, complain," from be- + sprecan "to speak" (see speak (v.)). A common Germanic compound (cognates: Old Saxon bisprecan, Dutch bespreken, Old High German bisprehhan, German besprechen), meaning originally "to call out." It evolved a wide range of meaning in English, including "speak up," "oppose," "request," "discuss, "arrange," and "order (goods)" (1580s). The connection of the senses is very loose; some of them appear to have arisen quite independently of each other from different applications of BE- pref. [OED] Related: Bespeaking; bespoke. updated on May 21, 2017
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bespoke adj.