英语词汇breeder的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	breeder
词源	breeder n. 1530s, "one who raises a particular kind of animal" (especially cattle); 1570s, "one who produces or originates," used especially of females, agent noun from breed (v.). Of nuclear reactors, from 1948. As a scornful homosexual term for "heterosexual person," attested from 1986. Entries linking to breeder breed v. Old English bredan "bring (young) to birth, procreate," also "cherish, keep warm," from West Germanic brodjan (source also of Old High German bruoten, German brüten "to brood, hatch"), from brod- "fetus, hatchling," from PIE root *bhreu- "to boil, bubble, effervesce, burn." The etymological notion is incubation, warming to hatch. The intransitive sense "come into being" is from c. 1200; that of "beget or bear offspring" is from mid-13c. Of livestock, etc., "procure by the mating of parents and rear for use," mid-14c. The sense of "grow up, be reared" (in a clan, etc.) is late 14c.; the meaning "form by education" is from mid-15c. Related: Bred; breeding. updated on August 04, 2017
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