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English Late Bring Indo European Slow Latin Lassus Originally

正面 438.late
英 [leɪt]美 [let]

背面
释义:
adj. 晚的;迟的;已故的;最近的adv. 晚;迟;最近;在晚期
例句:
1. He defected from the party in the late 1970s.他在20世纪70年代后期叛出了该党。

1、sug- "up" + gest- "bring, carry".2、含义:suggest, supply, bring up.3、最初的字面含义为:heap up, build. 后来演化、引申为:bring forward or bring up an idea, proposal.4、but original English notion of "evil prompting" is preserved in suggestive (1630s, though the indecent aspect did not emerge until 1888).
late 晚的来自PIE*led,慢的,疲倦的,来自PIE*le,放开,松开,松软,词源同late,lenient.引申词义慢的,晚的。
latelate: [OE] English and Dutch (with laat) are the only modern European languages to use this word to express the idea of ‘behind time’. It comes from an Indo-European base *lad- ‘slow, weary’, which also produced Latin lassus ‘tired’ (source of English alas [13] and lassitude [16]). In prehistoric Germanic this gave *lataz ‘slow, sluggish’.Its English descendant late originally meant ‘slow’ (and the related German lass still means ‘lazy’), but although this survived dialectally into the 19th century, in the mainstream language ‘delayed’ had virtually replaced it by the 15th century. From the same ultimate Indo-European source come English lease, let, and liege.=> alas, lassitude, last, lease, let, liegelate (adj.)Old English læt "occurring after the customary or expected time," originally "slow, sluggish," from Proto-Germanic *lata- (cognates: Old Norse latr "sluggish, lazy," Middle Dutch, Old Saxon lat, German laß "idle, weary," Gothic lats "weary, sluggish, lazy," latjan "to hinder"), from PIE *led- "slow, weary" (cognates: Latin lassus "faint, weary, languid, exhausted," Greek ledein "to be weary"), from root *le- "to let go, slacken" (see let (v.)). The sense of "deceased" (as in the late Mrs. Smith) is from late 15c., from an adverbial sense of "recently." Of women's menstrual periods, attested colloquially from 1962. Related: Lateness. As an adverb, from Old English late."

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