- fingerprint (n.)
[fingerprint 词源字典]
- also finger-print, 1834, from finger (n.) + print (n.). Proposed as a means of identification from c. 1892. Admissibility as evidence as valid proof of guilt in murder trials in U.S. upheld in 1912. From 1900 as a verb. Related: Fingerprinted; fingerprinting.[fingerprint etymology, fingerprint origin, 英语词源]