- ligature
[ligature 词源字典]
- ligature: see liable
[ligature etymology, ligature origin, 英语词源] - ligature (n.)
- c. 1400, "something used in tying or binding," from Middle French ligature (14c.), from Late Latin ligatura "a band," from Latin ligatus, past participle of ligare "to bind" (see ligament). In musical notation from 1590s; of letters joined in printing or writing from 1690s.