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问题: 请问英文“现象”一词的词源是什么?

解答:

Late Latin phaenomenon
后期拉丁语 phaenomenon
from Greek phainomenon [from neuter present participle of] phainesthai [to appear] * see bh³- 1
源自 希腊语 phainomenon [] 源自phainesthai的中性现在分词 [出现] *参见 bh³- 1

Phenomenon is the only singular form of this noun; phenomena is the usual plural. Phenomenons may also be used as the plural in nonscientific writing when the meaning is “extraordinary things, occurrences, or persons”:
Phenomenon 是这个名词唯一的单数形式; phenomena 是常用的复数形式。 Phenomenons 在非科技性的文章也可当作复数使用, 其意思是:“不寻常的事或人”:
They were phenomenons in the history of music.
他们是音乐史上的杰出人物


参考文献:金山词霸2007