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Latin Discuss Smash Past Participle Stem Meaning Scatter

正面 849.discuss
英 [dɪ'skʌs]美 [dɪ'skʌs]

背面
释义:
vt. 讨论;论述,辩论
例句:
1. The Politburo has been meeting in Peking to discuss the situation.政治局已在北京召开会议讨论形势。

1. 大街上的埃及老鼠有策略。
discuss 讨论dis-, 分开,散开。-cuss, 摇,震荡,词源同concussion,percussion. 引申词义谈话,讨论。
discussdiscuss: [14] The ultimate source of discuss meant ‘smash to pieces’. It comes from discuss-, the past participle stem of Latin discutere, a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘apart’ and quatere ‘shake’ (from which English also gets concussion and quash). Its literal meaning was ‘smash apart, break up’, and this gradually developed via ‘scatter, disperse’ to, in post-classical times, ‘investigate, examine’ and eventually ‘debate’.The apparently wide semantic discrepancy between ‘scatter, disperse’ and ‘examine’ was probably bridged by some such intermediate notion as ‘disperse or separate in the mind so as to distinguish and identify each component’.=> concussion, quashdiscuss (v.)mid-14c., "to examine, investigate," from Latin discuss-, past participle stem of discutere "to dash to pieces, agitate," in Late Latin and Vulgar Latin also "to discuss, investigate" (see discussion). Meaning "examine by argument, debate" is from mid-15c. Related: Discussed; discussing."

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