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Latin Deliver Set French Delivrer Late Dēlīberāre Meaning

正面 1293.deliver
英 [dɪ'lɪvə]美 [dɪ'lɪvɚ]

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释义:
vt. 交付;发表;递送;释放;给予(打击);给…接生vi. 实现;传送;履行;投递n. 投球
例句:
1. I have orders to deliver it to Mr Demiris personally.我奉命要把它送给德米里斯先生本人。

deliver 投递——递礼物
deliver 解救,分娩,交付,投递de-, 向下,离开。-liver, 自由,词源同liberate, liberation.即解救,拯救,使自由,引申义分娩,交付等。前缀de-在该词词义较抽象。
deliverdeliver: [13] To deliver something is etymologically to ‘set it free’. The word comes via Old French delivrer from late Latin dēlīberāre, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē- and Latin līberāre ‘set free’, a derivative of the adjective līber ‘free’. Its meaning developed through ‘set free’ to ‘give up, surrender’ and finally ‘hand over to someone else’. (Classical Latin dēlīberāre, source of English deliberate [15], is an entirely different verb, derived from Latin lībra ‘scales’.)=> liberatedeliver (v.)c. 1200, "save, rescue, set free, liberate," from Old French delivrer "to set free; remove; save, preserve; hand over (goods)," also used of childbirth, from Late Latin deliberare, from de- "away" (see de-) + Latin liberare "to free" (see liberal (adj.)). Childbirth sense in English, "to bring (a woman) to childbirth," is from c. 1300. Sense of "hand over, give, give up, yield" is c. 1300. in English, which brings it in opposition to its root. Meaning "project, throw" is 1590s. Related: Delivered; delivering."

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