英语词汇cannibal的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cannibal. When Columbus encountered the Caribs upon landing in the Lesser Antilles on his second voyage in 1493, these natives told him their name was Canibales. This word was merely a dialect form of Caribs and these people were Car- ibs themselves, but the Spanish thereafter called the whole Car- ib tribe Canibales. Because some of these fierce warriors ate human flesh, within a century their name was used in Europe as a synonym for man-eaters, and cannibalism was substituted for the classical anthropophagy. The word was probably also in- fluenced by the Spanish word canino, meaning “canine” or “vo- racious.” Columbus, incidentally, thought he had landed in Asia and that the Canibales were subjects of the Great Khan, or Cham, another doubtful but possible influence on the word’s formation. See caribbean sea.

词汇	cannibal
词源	cannibal. When Columbus encountered the Caribs upon landing in the Lesser Antilles on his second voyage in 1493, these natives told him their name was Canibales. This word was merely a dialect form of Caribs and these people were Car- ibs themselves, but the Spanish thereafter called the whole Car- ib tribe Canibales. Because some of these fierce warriors ate human flesh, within a century their name was used in Europe as a synonym for man-eaters, and cannibalism was substituted for the classical anthropophagy. The word was probably also in- fluenced by the Spanish word canino, meaning “canine” or “vo- racious.” Columbus, incidentally, thought he had landed in Asia and that the Canibales were subjects of the Great Khan, or Cham, another doubtful but possible influence on the word’s formation. See caribbean sea.
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