英文词源
- colony
- colony: [16] Etymologically, a colony is a ‘settled land’. The word goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *qwel-, *qwol-, which signified ‘move around’ (it is the source of English cycle and wheel) and hence ‘move habitually in, settle in, inhabit’. One of the descendants of this base was Latin colere ‘inhabit, cultivate’. Thus someone who settled on a new piece of land and cultivated it was a colōnus, and the land he settled was his colōnia. (The German city of Cologne gets its name from Latin colōnia; in Roman times it was called Colōnia Agrippīna, the ‘settlement or colony of Agrippa’.)
=> cycle, wheel - colony (n.)
- late 14c., "ancient Roman settlement outside Italy," from Latin colonia "settled land, farm, landed estate," from colonus "husbandman, tenant farmer, settler in new land," from colere "to inhabit, cultivate, frequent, practice, tend, guard, respect," from PIE root *kwel- (1) "move around" (source of Latin -cola "inhabitant;" see cycle (n.)). Also used by the Romans to translate Greek apoikia "people from home." Modern application dates from 1540s.
中文词源
来自PIE*kwel, 转，耕作，词源同cycle, culture. 本义为到新的地方开发，耕作，后指殖民，占领别人的土地。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：colony 词源，colony 含义。
词根词缀： -colon-耕种,殖民 + -y名词词尾
culture（培植；文化）的词根cult表“耕种”，其字面意思即“对土地的耕种”。应该可以这样说，食物的可持续供应，是一个文明生根发芽的条件以及源远流长的保证。colony是其同根词，词根col-表“耕种”，殖民的第一步即开发土地；-ony为复合名词后缀。
