• n. 音樂會；一致；和諧
• vt. 使協(xié)調(diào)；協(xié)同安排
• vi. 協(xié)調(diào)；協(xié)力
• adj. 音樂會用的；在音樂會上演出的

con-, 強調(diào)。-cert, 唱，詞源同chant, cantor. 字母n被r化。即一起唱歌，音樂會。

concert

concert: [16] Concert probably comes ultimately from Latin concertāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix com- ‘with’ and certāre ‘strive, contend’, a verb derived from certus ‘sure, fixed’ (source of English certain), which in turn came from cernere (source of English concern). Some etymologists have rejected concertāre as the origin of concert, on the grounds that its meaning – ‘dispute, debate’ – was completely opposite, but it seems that in post-classical times the Latin verb came to mean ‘strive together (in cooperation)’ – a much more plausible sense relationship.

It passed into Italian as concertare ‘bring into agreement’, and developed specific musical connotations of ‘harmony’. English acquired it via French concerter. The noun concerto [18] was an Italian derivative of the verb; French borrowed it as concert, and passed it on to English as the noun concert [17]. Concertina was coined in the 1830s, from the noun concert.
=> certain, concern, concertina, concerto, disconcert

concert (n.)

1660s, "agreement, accord, harmony," from French concert (16c.), from Italian concerto "concert, harmony," from concertare "bring into agreement," in Latin "to contend, contest, dispute," from com- "with" (see com-) + certare "to contend, strive," frequentative of certus, variant past participle of cernere "separate, decide" (see crisis).

Before the word entered English, meaning shifted from "to strive against" to "to strive alongside." Sense of "public musical performance" is 1680s. But Klein considers this too much of a stretch and suggests Latin concentare "to sing together" (from con- + cantare "to sing") as the source of the Italian word in the musical sense.

1. He wants to act in concert with other nations.

他想和其他國家采取一致行動。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Now his other major works are creeping back into concert programmes.

現(xiàn)在他的其他主要作品又悄然出現(xiàn)在音樂會節(jié)目單上。

來自柯林斯例句

3. In the end, we all decided to organize a concert for Easter.

最終，我們一致決定組織一場復活節(jié)音樂會。

來自柯林斯例句

4. The concert will be broadcast live by the BBC.

這場音樂會將由英國廣播公司進行現(xiàn)場直播。

來自柯林斯例句

5. Mahler's own imaginative orchestration was heard in the same concert.

在同一場音樂會上還演奏了馬勒自己改編的別出心裁的管弦樂曲。

來自柯林斯例句