concordance(n.)
14世纪末,“主要书面作品(尤其是圣经,后来也包括莎士比亚的戏剧)中重要单词的字母顺序排列”,源自古法语 concordance(12世纪)“协议,和谐”,直接源自中世纪拉丁语 concordantia,源自 concordans(主格 concordantem),源自拉丁语 concordare “意见一致”,源自 concors “思想相同”(参见 concord(名词))。
A verbal concordance consists of an alphabetical list of the principal words used in the work, under each of which references to the passages in which it is found are arranged in order, generally with citation of the essential part of each. A real concordance is an alphabetical index of subjects. [Century Dictionary]
verbal concordance 由作品中使用的主要单词的字母顺序列表组成,在每个单词下,将其在作品中出现的引用按顺序排列,通常附带每个引用的必要部分的引用。 real concordance 是主题的字母索引。[世纪词典]
In the precomputing era, search technology was unavailable, and a concordance offered readers of long works such as the Bible something comparable to search results for every word that they would have been likely to search for. Today, the ability to combine the result of queries concerning multiple terms (such as searching for words near other words) has reduced interest in concordance publishing. [Wikipedia]
在计算机出现之前,搜索技术不可用,而协同工作为长篇作品的读者提供了与他们可能搜索的每个单词的搜索结果相当的东西。今天,结合有关多个术语的查询结果的能力(例如搜索靠近其他单词的单词)已经减少了对协同出版的兴趣。[维基百科]
最初是圣经书中平行段落的引用。在中古英语中也有“相互情感状态”(14世纪末); “达成一致的事实”(15世纪中期)。相关: Concordancy。
该词起源时间:14世纪末