Creole的词源
英文词源
- creole
- creole: see creature
- creole (n.)
- c. 1600, from French créole (17c.), from Spanish criollo "person native to a locality," from Portuguese crioulo, diminutive of cria "person (especially a servant) raised in one's house," from criar "to raise or bring up," from Latin creare "to produce, create" (see create).
The exact sense varies with local use. Originally with no connotation of color or race; Fowler (1926) writes: "Creole does not imply mixture of race, but denotes a person either of European or (now rarely) of negro descent born and naturalized in certain West Indian and American countries." In U.S. use, applied to descendants of French and Spanish settlers in Louisiana from at least 1792. Of languages, from 1879. As an adjective, from 1748.
中文词源
词源同create, 创造。原指欧洲殖民者，特别是西班牙人在南美，加勒比海区域与当地人生育的后代，后来也指这些后代所使用的语言，比较pidgin, Tok Pisin.
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：Creole 词源，Creole 含义。
