physics: [16] Physics comes ultimately from Greek phúsis ‘nature’, a derivative of phúein ‘bring forth, cause to grow’. The science of studying the natural world was hence phusiké epistémē ‘knowledge of nature’, and phusiké, turned into a noun, passed into English via Latin physica and Old French fisique as fisike. By now its meaning had shifted from ‘natural science’ to ‘medicine’, a sense preserved in the now archaic physic [13] and in the derivative physician [13], and the modern plural form, which restores the original meaning, was a direct translation of Greek tà phusiká ‘the physics’, the title of Aristotle’s writings on natural science. Physique [19] was borrowed from French. => physique
physics (n.)
1580s, "natural science," from physic in sense of "natural science." Also see -ics. Based on Latin physica (neuter plural), from Greek ta physika, literally "the natural things," name of Aristotle's treatise on nature. Specific sense of "science treating of properties of matter and energy" is from 1715.
雙語例句
1. Physics isn't just about pure science with no immediate applications.
物理學并非只是一門不能直接運用的純科學。
來自柯林斯例句
2. On balance, the book is a friendly, down-to-earth introduction to physics.
總而言之，這是一本通俗而務實的物理入門書。
來自柯林斯例句
3. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1985.