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Suggest Bring Forward English Past Participle Latin Digest

正面 431.suggest
英 [sə'dʒest]美 [sə'dʒɛst]

背面
释义:
vt. 提议,建议;启发;使人想起;显示;暗示
例句:
1. I suggest we gather enough firewood to last the night.我建议大家捡足够多的木柴来撑过这一晚。

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).
suggest 提议,建议,推荐,举荐sug-,在下,向上,-gest,带来,承载,词源同 gesture,congest.引申诸相关词义。
suggestsuggest: [16] To suggest something is etymologically to ‘carry it under’. It comes from the past participle of Latin suggerere, a compound verb formed from the suffix sub- and gerere ‘carry’ (source also of English digest, gesture, etc). Its meaning evolved via ‘heap up, build’ and ‘furnish a supply’ to ‘bring forward an idea’.=> congest, digest, gesturesuggest (v.)1520s, "place before another's mind; put forward a proposition," from Latin suggestus, past participle of suggerere "bring up, bring under, lay beneath; furnish, afford, supply; prompt" (see suggestion). Meaning "to act so as to call up the idea of (something else)" is from 1709. Related: Suggested; suggesting."

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