- disinherit (v.)
[disinherit 词源字典] - mid-15c., from dis- "not" + inherit. Related: Disinherited; disinheriting. Replaced earlier desherit (c. 1300), from Old French desheriter.[disinherit etymology, disinherit origin, 英语词源]
- disinhibition (n.)
- 1927; see dis- + inhibition. From the start it was noted as being, often, "inhibition of an inhibition."
- disintegrate (v.)
- 1796, from dis- "do the opposite of" + integrate (v.). Related: Disintegrated; disintegrating.
- disintegration (n.)
- 1796, noun of action from disintegrate.
- disinter (v.)
- 1610s, from French désenterrer (15c.), from dés- (see dis-) + enterrer "to inter" (see inter). Related: Disinterred.
- disinterested (adj.)
- 1610s, "unconcerned," the sense we now would ascribe to uninterested, with the sense of "impartial" going to disinteressed (c. 1600). See dis- + interest. Modern sense of disinterested is first attested 1650s. As things now stand, disinterested means "free from personal bias," while uninterested means "caring nothing for the matter in question." Related: Disinterestedly; disinterestedness.
- disinvestment (n.)
- 1938, first recorded in writings of J.M. Keynes, from dis- + investment. The verb disinvest in this sense is a back-formation attested from 1961. Related: Disinvested; disinvesting.
- disinvite (v.)
- 1570s; see dis- + invite. Related: Disinvited; disinviting.
- disjecta membra (n.)
- "scattered remains" (especially literary), from Horace's Latin phrase disjecti membra poetae "limbs of a dismembered poet."
- disjointed (adj.)
- 1640s, past participle adjective from disjoint (mid-15c.), from Old French desjoindre, from Latin disiungere, from dis- (see dis-) + iungere (see jugular).
- disjunction (n.)
- c. 1400, disjunccioun, from Old French disjunction (13c.) or directly from Latin disjunctionem "separation," noun of action from past participle stem of disjungere (see disjointed).
- disjuncture (n.)
- c. 1400, surgical, "dislocation," from Latin; see dis- + juncture. Figurative use from 1680s.
- disk (n.)
- American English preferred spelling, 1660s, "round flat surface," from Latin discus "quoit, discus, disk," from Greek diskos "disk, quoit, platter," related to dikein "throw," from PIE *dik-skos-, from root *deik- "to show, pronounce solemnly; also in derivatives referring to the directing of words or objects" [Watkins]; see diction.
Sense of "phonograph disk" is 1888; computing sense is from 1947. Disk jockey first recorded 1941; dee-jay is from 1955; DJ is 1961; video version veejay is 1982. Disk-drive is from 1952. - diskette (n.)
- "floppy disk," 1973, from disk with diminutive suffix -ette.
- dislike (v.)
- 1540s (implied in disliking), hybrid which ousted native mislike as the opposite of like (v.). Related: Disliked; disliking. English in 16c. also had the excellent dislove "hate, cease to love," but it did not survive.
- dislocate (v.)
- c. 1600, from earlier adjective or past participle dislocate "out of joint" (c. 1400), from Medieval Latin dislocatus, past participle of dislocare "put out of place," from Latin dis- "away" (see dis-) + locare "to place" (see locate). Related: Dislocated; dislocating.
- dislocation (n.)
- c. 1400, originally of bones, from Old French dislocacion (14c.), or directly from Medieval Latin dislocationem (nominative dislocatio), noun of action from past participle stem of dislocare (see dislocate). General sense is from c. 1600.
- dislodge (v.)
- c. 1400, from Old French deslogier "to leave or cause to leave a lodging place; expel, drive away," from des- "do the opposite of" (see dis-) + logier (see lodge (v.)). Related: Dislodged; dislodging.
- disloyal (adj.)
- early 15c. (implied in disloyally), from Old French desloial, desleal (Modern French déloyal) "treacherous, false, deceitful," from des- (see dis-) + loial (see loyal).
- disloyalty (n.)
- early 15c., from Middle French desloyaulte, from Old French desloiaute, desleauté "disloyalty, faithlessness, marital infidelity," from desloial (see disloyal). Especially of allegiance to a state or sovereign since c. 1600.
