develop (v.)
1650年代, “展开, 展开” (此义现已过时), 来自法语 développer. 它取代了早期的英语 disvelop (1590年代, 来自法语 desveloper); 两个法语词都来自古法语 desveloper, desvoleper, desvoloper “展开, 展开, 揭开; 揭示的意思, 解释”, 来自 des- “undo” (见 dis-) + voloper “wrap up”, 其来源不确定, 可能是凯尔特语或日耳曼语.
现代用法是形象化的, 出现在英语18世纪及以后. 转义是“更充分地展开, 把潜力带出来”, 是在1750年; 不直截了当的意思是“逐渐进入存在或运作”, 是在1793年; “从一个阶段推进到另一个阶段, 走向完成状态”, 是在1843年. 不及物意义“成为已知的, 显现出来” 是到1864年, 美国英语.
照相意义的“诱导必要的化学变化, 使潜伏的图画或影像变得可见” 是1845年的; 房地产意义的“将土地转为实际或有利可图的用途” 是到1865年的. 与此相关. Developed; developing. Developing 作为形容词, 指贫穷或原始的国家或民族, 在经济, 工业和社会条件方面正在进步, 是1960年的事.

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word-forming element of Latin origin meaning 1. "lack of, not" (as in dishonest); 2. "opposite of, do the opposite of" (as in disallow); 3. "apart, away" (as in discard), from Old French des- or directly from Latin dis- "apart, asunder, in a different direction, between," figuratively "not, un-," also "exceedingly, utterly." Assimilated as dif- before -f- and to di- before most voiced consonants.
The Latin prefix is from PIE *dis- "apart, asunder" (source also of Old English te-, Old Saxon ti-, Old High German ze-, German zer-). The PIE root is a secondary form of *dwis- and thus is related to Latin bis "twice" (originally *dvis) and to duo, on notion of "two ways, in twain" (hence "apart, asunder").
In classical Latin, dis- paralleled de- and had much the same meaning, but in Late Latin dis- came to be the favored form and this passed into Old French as des-, the form used for compound words formed in Old French, where it increasingly had a privative sense ("not"). In English, many of these words eventually were altered back to dis-, while in French many have been altered back to de-. The usual confusion prevails.
As a living prefix in English, it reverses or negatives what it is affixed to. Sometimes, as in Italian, it is reduced to s- (as in spend, splay, sport, sdain for disdain, and the surnames Spencer and Spence).
1833, "one who or that which develops," agent noun from develop. Photography use in reference to the chemical bath used to bring out the latent image is attested from 1869; meaning "speculative builder" is by 1938.
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