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Что же непонятно - scan - to count the feet of a verse, to examine nicely; Lat. scando (1826) Рассчитывать стихотворный размер (размеренно читать стихи), изучать прекрасное, возноситься Лат. - scando, scandi, scansum, ere 1) восходить, подниматься, взбираться, влезать (muros L; in aggerem L; ad nidum Ph; equum V; Capitolium H; vallum Cs); 2) возноситься, подниматься, возвышаться (supra aliquem T); 3) достигать (gradus aetatis adultae Lcr); 4) грам. скандировать, размеренно читать (versus Cld). scan (v.) Look up scan at Dictionary.com late 14c., "mark off verse in metric feet," from L.L. scandere "to scan verse," originally, in classical L., "to climb" (the connecting notion is of the rising and falling rhythm of poetry), from PIE *skand- "to spring, leap" (cf. Skt. skandati "hastens, leaps, jumps;" Gk. skandalon "stumbling block;" M.Ir. sescaind "he sprang, jumped," sceinm "a bound, jump"). Missing -d in English is probably from confusion with suffix -ed (see lawn (1)). Sense of "look at closely, examine" first recorded 1540s. The (opposite) sense of "look over quickly, skim" is first attested 1926. The noun is recorded from 1706.
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