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Hi, everyone. And welcome back to our new segment 【It means what?】
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安澜, this is going to be a very interesting word that we're going to talk about today.
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欢迎回来我们的新板块【词源考古研究所】.
In this segment, we will bring you interesting origin stories of some of the most common words and phrases.
So today we're going to talk about the word “companion”.
Yes.
I know a lot of Chinese learners they like to say “I want to accompany you to do something” 我陪你去做什么事情.
Yeah, I've noticed that.
Yeah. It doesn't sound very natural.
No. We wouldn't say accompany someone. If we say something like the best translation for like “陪”, I would say it's like “spend time with”.
Or “keep you company”.
Or “keep you company”.
但不管是company还是accompany, 都和这个词有点关系, 就是companion.
Yes.
也就是同伴这么一个意思, 就是可以陪伴你的人.
Sometimes we also say pets are our companion.
Well. Exactly.
It's someone you spend time with.
That's it.
Where does this word come from? Because it's very different from like friends or family.
Well. Yeah, it's actually from two words, two Latin words. “Com” I think you can probably recognize what that means.
“Com” is, I think in Latin used to be written as “c” “u” “m”?
Yeah, or like “c” “o” “m”.
“c” “u” “m”, “c” “o” “m”, which means “with” “together”.
Yeah. So combine example.
Companion前面这个com, 它的意思有“和”, 就是 with, 在一起的这个意思. And “panion”?
It comes from the Latin word “panis”.
“penis”?
Not that.
Oh, “panis”.