commodious: [15] Latin commodus meant ‘convenient’. It was a compound adjective formed from com- ‘with’ and modus ‘measure’, and thus meaning literally ‘conforming with due measure’. From it was derived the medieval Latin adjective commodiōsus, which passed, probably via French commodieux, into English. This originally meant ‘advantageous, useful, convenient’, and it was not really until the 16th century that it developed the meaning ‘affording a conveniently large amount of space’.
The noun derivative commodity entered English in the 14th century, and from earliest times had the concrete meaning ‘article of commerce’, deriving from the more general sense ‘something useful’. Commodus was borrowed into French as commode ‘convenient’, which came to be used as a noun meaning both ‘tall headdress for women’ and ‘chest of drawers’. English adopted the word in the 17th century, and in the 19th century added the new sense ‘chair housing a chamber pot’ (a semantic development paralleling the euphemistic use of convenience for lavatory). => commode, commodity
commodious (adj.)
early 15c., "beneficial, convenient," from Medieval Latin commodiosus "convenient, useful," from Latin commodus (see commode). Meaning "roomy, spacious" first attested 1550s. Related: Commodiously; commodiousness.
雙語例句
1. Guestrooms are commodious and well-appointed.
客房寬敞舒適且陳設考究。
來自柯林斯例句
2. It is a commodious house.
這是一間寬敞的房屋。
來自辭典例句
3. It was a commodious and a diverting life.
這是一種自由自在,令人賞心悅目的生活.
來自辭典例句
4. Instead, a comparatively large and commodious chamber with conveniences not enjoyed by the small fry overhead.
換了一個較寬敞的化妝室,裝備有樓上那些跑龍套的無名之輩享受不到的便利設施.
來自英漢文學 - 嘉莉妹妹
5. Their habitation was not merely respectable and commodious, but even dignified and imposing.