portmanteau

英 [p??t'm?nt??] 美[,pot'm?nto]

復(fù)數(shù):?portmanteaus;

portmanteau 兩格式旅行衣箱，復(fù)合詞

來自中古法語portemanteau,旅行箱，行李箱，來自port-,攜帶，詞源同port,porter,manteau,斗篷，披風，外套，詞源同mantle.后引申詞義復(fù)合詞，混成詞。

portmanteau: portmanteau: [16] A portmanteau is etymologically something for ‘carrying one’s mantle’ in. The word was borrowed from French portemanteau, a compound formed from porter ‘carry’ and manteau ‘cloak’ (source of English mantle). This originally denoted a ‘court official whose duty was to carry the king’s cloak’, but it was also applied to the bag in which he carried it, and hence eventually to any bag for carrying clothes and other items needed on a journey.
=> mantle, port
portmanteau (n.): 1580s, "traveling case or bag for clothes and other necessaries," from Middle French portemanteau "traveling bag," originally "court official who carried a prince's mantle" (1540s), from porte, imperative of porter "to carry" (see porter (n.1)) + manteau "cloak" (see mantle (n.)).

Portmanteau word "word blending the sound of two different words" (1882), coined by "Lewis Carroll" (Charles L. Dodgson, 1832-1898) for the sort of words he invented for "Jabberwocky," on notion of "two meanings packed up into one word." As a noun in this sense from 1872.

1. I rang the bell, and directed my servant to pack my portmanteau.: 我打了鈴, 吩咐聽差把我的旅行皮包收拾好.

2. There are some worthless articles of clothing in the old portmanteau.: 在那口舊皮箱里,放著幾件不值錢的衣物.

3. He always carries this portmanteau with him when he goes abroad.: 出國時他總是帶著這個旅行箱.

4. Stagflation is portmanteau word made of stagnation and inflation.: 滯漲是由停滯和通貨膨脹兩個詞所組成的合成詞.

5. Soviet bureaucratese, especially the tongue - twisting acronyms and alien - sounding portmanteau words of the state security apparatus ( Strobe Talbott ): 蘇聯(lián)官僚語言, 尤其是描述保安體制的繞口的首字母簡略詞和外來語組合詞 ( 斯特羅布塔爾博特 )