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- transfer[transfer 词源字典]
- transfer: [14] Transfer comes via Old French transferer from Latin trānsferre ‘carry across’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix trāns- ‘across’ (a distant relative of English through) and ferre ‘carry’ (a relative of English bear, birth, fertile, etc). Its past participle trānslātus gave English translate.
=> bear[transfer etymology, transfer origin, 英语词源] - transfer (v.)
- late 14c., from Old French transferer or directly from Latin transferre "bear across, carry over, bring through; transfer, copy, translate," from trans- "across" (see trans-) + ferre "to carry" (see infer). Related: Transferred; transferring.
- transfer (n.)
- 1670s, "conveyance of property," from transfer (v.).