settlement的词源

英文词源

settlement (n.)

1620s, "act of fixing or steadying;" from settle (v.) + -ment. Meaning "a colony," especially a new one, "tract of country newly developed" is attested from 1690s; that of "small village on the frontier" is from 1827, American English. Sense of "payment of an account" is from 1729; legal sense "a settling of arrangements" (of porce, property transfer, etc.) is from 1670s.

中文词源

settlement：安排，解决，处理

settle,安排，解决，处理，-ment,名词后缀。

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