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- combine[combine 词源字典]
- combine: [15] The notion underlying combine is simply ‘two together’. It comes, perhaps via French combiner, from late Latin combīnāre, a compound verb formed from Latin com- ‘together’ and bīnī ‘two at a time’; this Latin adverb was formed from the prefix bi- ‘twice’, and is the basis of English binary.
=> binary[combine etymology, combine origin, 英语词源] - combine (n.)
- "machine that cuts, threshes and cleans grain" (short for combine harvester), 1857, from combine (v.).
- combine (v.)
- early 15c., from Middle French combiner (14c.), from Late Latin combinare "to unite, yoke together," from Latin com- "together" (see com-) + bini "two by two," adverb from bi- "twice" (see binary). Related: Combinative; combined; combining.