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The word "polished" ultimately derives from an ancient Indo-European root *pau- meaning "small" or "fine." This root is also found in the Latin word paucus ("few") and the English word pauper ("poor").
As the concept of "smallness" or "fineness" evolved, it came to be associated with the act of smoothing and refining something. In Latin, this led to the development of the word polīre, meaning "to polish."
The word "polīre" was borrowed into Anglo-Norman French as polisshed, and eventually into Middle English as polisshed. The modern English spelling "polished" is a result of a 16th-century spelling改革.
Over time, the meaning of "polished" has expanded beyond its original sense of "to make smooth and glossy" to include the more general meaning of "to refine or improve something."
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