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Contract French Draw Latin Make English Past Participle

正面 1274.contract
英 ['kɒntrækt]美 ['kɑntrækt]

背面
释义:
vi. 收缩;感染;订约vt. 感染;订约;使缩短n. 合同;婚约
例句:
1. A formal contract is signed which is renewable annually.正式签订了每年可续签的合同。

1、con- "together" + tract-.2、字面意思为: draw together. => combine, make an agreement.
contract 合同,收缩con-, 强调。-tract, 拉,拉紧,词源同attract, retreat. 引申义确立条款,签订合同。
contractcontract: [14] English acquired the word contract in stages, although in all cases the ultimate source was contractus, the past participle of Latin contrahere, a compound verb formed from the prefix com- ‘together’ and trahere ‘pull, draw’ (source of English traction and tractor). This meant literally ‘pull together’, but it had a variety of metaphorical senses, including ‘bring about’ and ‘enter into an agreement’, and it was the latter which first passed into English via Old French as a noun meaning ‘mutual agreement’.The arrival of the verb contract did not happen until the 16th century; it developed from an earlier adjective contract, which came again from Old French contract. This introduced a further sense of Latin contrahere; ‘become narrowed, get smaller’.=> distract, retract, traction, tractorcontract (v.)late 14c., "make narrow, draw together;" early 15c. "make an agreement;" from Middle French contracter, from Latin contractus, past participle of contrahere "to draw together, combine, make an agreement" (see contract (n.)). Related: Contracted; contracting.contract (n.)early 14c., from Old French contract (Modern French contrat), from Latin contractus "a contract, agreement," from past participle of contrahere "to draw together," metaphorically, "to make a bargain," from com- "together" (see com-) + trahere "to draw" (see tract (n.1)). U.S. underworld sense of "arrangement to kill someone" first recorded 1940."

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