pantechnicon
英 [pæn'teknɪk(ə)n]
GRE
pantechnicon 家具搬运车来自Pantechnicon,19世纪初伦敦大型家具商场，来自pan-,全部，所有，-tech,技艺，技术，词源同technology,textile.该商场提供送货上门服务，后词义通用化为家具搬运车。
- pantechnicon
- pantechnicon: [19] The original Pantechnicon was a huge complex of warehouses, wine vaults, and other storage facilities in Motcomb Street, in London’s Belgravia. Built in 1830 and supposed to be fireproof, it was almost totally destroyed by fire in 1874. It seems originally to have been intended to be a bazaar, and its name was coined from the prefix pan- ‘all’ and Greek tekhnikón, the neuter form of tekhnikós ‘artistic’, denoting that all sorts of manufactured wares were to be bought there.
But it was its role as a furniture repository that brought it into the general language. Removal vans taking furniture there came to be known as pantechnicon vans, and by the 1890s pantechnicon was a generic term for ‘removal vans’.
=> architect, technical
- 1. They've stored their furniture in a pantechnicon while they go abroad.
- 他们出国时把家具送到仓库保管起来。
来自辞典例句
