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pacific [pacific 词源字典]: pacific: see peace
[pacific etymology, pacific origin, 英语词源]
pacify: pacify: see peace
rapacious: rapacious: see rapture
capacious (adj.): 1610s, "able to contain," from Latin capax (genitive capacis) "able to take in," from capere "to take" (see capable) + -ous. Meaning "able to hold much" is from 1630s. Related: Capaciously; capaciousness.
capacitance (n.): 1893, from capacity + -ance.
capacitate (v.): 1650s, from Latin capacitas (see capacity) + -ate (2). Related: Capacitation.
capacitor (n.): "device which stores electricity," 1926, from capacity with Latinate agent-noun ending.
capacity (n.): early 15c., from Middle French capacité "ability to hold" (15c.), from Latin capacitatem (nominative capacitas) "breadth, capacity, capability of holding much," noun of state from capax (genitive capacis) "able to hold much," from capere "to take" (see capable). Meaning "largest audience a place can hold" is 1908.
incapacitate (v.): 1650s, from incapacity + -ate. Related: Incapacitated; incapacitating.
incapacitation (n.): 1741, noun of action from incapacitate.
incapacity (n.): 1610s, from French incapacité (16c.), from Medieval Latin incapacitatem (nominative incapacitas), from Late Latin incapax (genitive incapacis) "incapable," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + Latin capax "capable," literally "able to hold much," from capere "to take" (see capable). Often used 17c. as a legal term referring to inability to take, receive, or deal with in some way.
opacity (n.): 1550s, "darkness of meaning, obscurity," from French opacité, from Latin opacitatem (nominative opacitas) "shade, shadiness," from opacus "shaded, dark, opaque" (see opaque). The literal sense "condition of being impervious to light" first recorded 1630s.
pacific (adj.): 1540s, "tending to make peace," from Middle French pacifique, from Latin pacificus "peaceful, peace-making," from pax (genitive pacis) "peace" (see peace) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Meaning "peaceful, calm" is first recorded 1630s. Related: Pacifical (mid-15c.); pacifically.
Pacific Ocean: 1660, from Medieval Latin Pacificum, neuter of Latin pacificus (see pacific); so called c. 1500 by Magellan when he sailed into it and found it calmer than the stormy Atlantic.
pacification (n.): "a setting at peace," early 15c., from Middle French pacification "act of making peaceful" (15c.), from Latin pacificationem (nominative pacificatio) "a peace-making," noun of action from past participle stem of pacificare "to pacify" (see pacify).
pacificism (n.): 1904, from pacific + -ism.
pacifier (n.): "one who pacifies or appeases," 1530s, agent noun from pacify. The meaning "nipple-shaped device for babies" is first recorded 1904.
pacifism (n.): 1905, from French pacifisme (by 1903, apparently coined by Émile Arnaud), from pacifique (see pacific).
pacifist (n.): 1903, from French pacifiste (see pacifism). Related: Pacifistic (1902).
pacify (v.): late 15c., "appease, allay the anger of (someone)," from Middle French pacifier "make peace," from Latin pacificare "to make peace; pacify," from pacificus (see pacific). Of countries or regions, "to bring to a condition of calm," c. 1500, from the start with suggestions of submission and terrorization. Related: Pacified; pacifying.
rapacious (adj.): 1650s, from Latin rapaci-, stem of rapax "grasping," itself from stem of rapere "to seize" (see rapacity) + -ous. Related: Rapaciously; rapaciousness.
rapacity (n.): 1540s, from Middle French rapacité (16c.), from Latin rapacitatem (nominative rapacitas) "greediness," from rapax (genitive rapacis) "grasping, plundering," from rapere "seize" (see rapid).
spacing (n.): "allowing and gauging of intervals between words in setting type," 1680s, verbal noun from space (v.).
spacious (adj.): late 14c., from Old French spacios, espacios "roomy, spacious, extensive" (12c., Modern French spacieux), or directly from Latin spatiosus "roomy, ample" (Medieval Latin spaciosus), from spatium "room, space" (see space (n.)). Related: Spaciously; spaciousness.
pacificator: "A person who or thing which pacificates someone or something; a peacemaker; a thing that soothes or subdues", Mid 16th cent.; earliest use found in Thomas Cromwell (d. 1540), royal minister. From classical Latin pācificātor peacemaker, pacifier from pācificāt-, past participial stem of pācificāre + -or. Compare Middle French, French pacificateur arbiter, peacemaker.
repacify: "To pacify again", Early 17th cent.; earliest use found in Samuel Daniel (?1563–1619), poet and historian. From re- + pacify. Compare post-classical Latin repacificare.