来自nine的复数形式,引申词义完美,因9在古代哲学观念里意味着完美,极限。在中国神话传说里9同样也意味着完美,如九重天,即至高天。
[T]he Book of St. Albans, in the sections on blasonry, lays great stress on the nines in which all perfect things (orders of angels, virtues, articles of chivalry, differences of coat armour, etc.) occur. [Weekley]No one seems to consider that it might be a corruption and misdivision of to then anes, literally "for the one (purpose or occasion)," a similar construction to the one that yielded nonce (q.v.).
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