英文字彙與字源學 Week 17

英文字彙與字源學 Week 17

tact	touch	tact (n.) 1650s, "sense of touch or feeling" (with an isolated instance, tacþe from c. 1200), from Latin tactus "a touch, handling, sense of touch," from root of tangere "to touch" (see tangent (adj.)). Meaning "sense of discernment in action or conduct, diplomacy, fine intuitive mental perception" first recorded 1804, from development in French cognate tact. The Latin figurative sense was "influence, effect."
tempor	time	temporality (n.)  late 14c., "temporal power," from Late Latin temporalitas, from temporalis "of a time, but for a time" (see temporal).
tract	pull, draw out	tract (n.2) "little book, treatise" mid-12c., probably a shortened form of Latin tractatus "a handling, treatise, treatment," from tractare "to handle" (see treat (v.)).Related: Tractarian.
vert	turn	vert (v.)  "to turn in some direction," 1570s, from Latin vertere "to turn" from PIE root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus). As a noun meaning "one who has left the Church of England" from 1864, short for convert (v.). ambivert (n.) "person exhibiting features of an extrovert and an introvert," coined by Kimball Young in "Source Book for Social Psychology" (1927), from ambi- "about, around" + -vert (as in earlier introvert), which is ultimately from Latin vertere "to turn," from PIE root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus). Related: Ambiversion.
voc	voice, call	vocal (adj.) late 14c., "spoken, oral," from Old French vocal (13c.), from Latin vocalis "sounding, sonorous, speaking," as a noun, "a vowel," from vox (genitive vocis) "voice" (see voice (n.)). In reference to music (as opposed to instrumental), first recorded 1580s; meaning "outspoken" first attested 1871. Vocal cords is from 1872; see cord.