doublet(n.)
14世纪中期,“一种紧身男式外衣,从颈部到臀部或大腿覆盖身体”,源自古法语 doublet(12世纪),源自 duble 的缩小形式“双倍,两倍”,源自拉丁语 duplus “双倍,两倍”(参见 double(形容词))。
从16世纪到18世纪, doublet and hose 指“典型的男性服装”。从1550年代开始,“一对相似的两件事物”,最初指同一语言中形式不同但来自同一祖先词的单词。
In philol., a duplicate form of a word ; one of two (or, by extension, three or more) words originally the same, but having come to differ in form, and usually more or less in meaning. Doublets are very common in English. They usually consist of an older and a later form, the older being generally descended and the later directly borrowed from the same original (as benison, benediction; malison, malediction, etc.), or two accidental variations of one original, sometimes slightly discriminated (as alarm, alarum, etc.), or of a standard literary and a dialectal form (as church, kirk; lord, laird, etc.). [Century Dictionary]
在语言学中,一个单词的重复形式; 最初是两个(或扩展为三个或更多)单词,但形式不同,通常在意义上或多或少有所不同。在英语中,双词很常见。它们通常由一个旧形式和一个较新的形式组成,旧形式通常是后代,而较新的形式则是直接从同一原始形式借来的(如 benison, benediction; malison, malediction 等),或者是一个原始形式的两个意外变化,有时略有区别(如 alarm, alarum 等),或者是标准文学和方言形式(如 church, kirk; lord, laird 等)。[世纪词典]
该词起源时间:14世纪中期