来自古法语 tenez,接住,来自 tenir 的命令格,来自 tenir,接住,握住,词源同 contain,tenure. 原为中世纪流行于法国骑士阶层的一种手击球游戏,后用于指网球。这种由动作过渡为名词 的词义演变,比较 temper,tempera.
The name 'sphairistike,' however, was impossible (if only because people would pronounce it as a word of three syllables to rhyme with 'pike') and it was soon rechristened. ["Times" of London, June 10, 1927]Tennis-ball attested from mid-15c.; tennis-court from 1560s; tennis-elbow from 1883; tennis-shoes from 1887.
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