英语词汇gangrene的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	gangrene
词源	gangrene n. "putrefaction or necrosis of soft tissues," 1540s, cancrena, from Latin gangraena (Medieval Latin cancrena), from medical Greek gangraina "an eating or gnawing sore," literally "that which eats away," a dissimilated, reduplicated form of gran- "to gnaw," from PIE root gras- "to devour" (see gastric). Entries linking to gangrene* gastric adj. 1650s, from Modern Latin gastricus, from Greek gaster (genitive gastros) "stomach, paunch, belly," often figurative of gluttony or greed, also "womb, uterus; sausage," by dissimilation from graster, literally "eater, devourer," from gran "to gnaw, eat," from PIE root gras- "to devour" (source also of Greek grastis "green fodder," Latin gramen "fodder, grass," Old English cærse "cress"). gangrenous adj. 1610s, from gangrene + -ous. Perhaps modeled on French gangréneux. updated on September 04, 2018
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gangrene n.