英语词汇detonate的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	detonate
词源	detonate v. 1729, intransitive, "explode suddenly and loudly," a back-formation from detonation, or else from Latin detonatus, past participle of detonare. Transitive sense of "cause to explode" is by 1801. Related: Detonated; detonating. Entries linking to detonate detonation n. 1670s, "explosion accompanied by loud sound," from French détonation, from Medieval Latin detonationem (nominative detonatio), from Latin detonare "to thunder down, to release one's thunder, roar out," from de "down" (see de-) + tonare "to thunder" (see thunder (n.)). Sense of "act of causing to explode" (mid-18c.) developed in French. detonator n. "that which causes (something) to explode," 1820, agent noun in Latin form from detonate. For suffix, see -er (1). updated on August 04, 2018
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