knowledge

英['nɒlɪdʒ]，美['nɑlɪdʒ]

n. 知识, 学问; 了解

词 源 树

权威词源导读

knowledge (n.) - 12世纪早期，cnawlece "acknowledgment of a superior, honor, worship"；第一部分参看：know (v.)。第二部分模糊，可能源自斯堪的纳维亚语并和-lock "action, process" 同源，见wedlock。14世纪晚期开始表示 "capacity for knowing, understanding; familiarity"；也表示 "fact or condition of knowing, awareness of a fact"；也表示 "news, notice, information; learning; organized body of facts or teachings"。含义 "sexual intercourse" 始于大约1400。中古英语还有动词形式，knoulechen "acknowledge" (大约1200)，后来表示 "find out about; recognize" 和 "to have sexual intercourse with" (大约1300)；比较acknowledge。

词源说明（童理民）

1. knowledge : 来自know,知道，理解，-ledge,可能来自古英语名词后缀-lac,-lock,词源同wedlock.引申词义知识。

21世纪大英汉词典

#knowledgen.1.■知识，学识，学问2.■知道，知晓；见闻3.■了解；理解；识别4.■消息5.■熟知，熟悉6.■理解范围7.■【哲学】认识8.■[古语]性交(=carnal knowledge)9.■[古语]学科bring to someone's knowledge让某人知道，告诉某人come to someone's knowledge被某人获悉，被某人知道in the knowledge that在知道…的情况下out of all knowledge无法辨认的；认不出来的to someone's knowledge据某人所知to the best of someone's knowledge据某人所知；据某人所理解without someone's knowledge瞒着某人，不告诉某人#