英语词汇aborigine的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

aborigine. William Hone, in his Table Book (1827–28) says that aborigine “is explained in every dictionary . . . as a general name for the indigenous inhabitants of a country. In reality, it is the proper name of a peculiar people of Italy, who were not in- digenous but were supposed to be a colony of Arcadians.” Nev- ertheless, these people of Latium were thought by some Romans to have been residents of Italy from the beginning, ab originie, which gave us the Latin word aborigines for the original inhab- itants of a country.

词汇	aborigine
词源	aborigine. William Hone, in his Table Book (1827–28) says that aborigine “is explained in every dictionary . . . as a general name for the indigenous inhabitants of a country. In reality, it is the proper name of a peculiar people of Italy, who were not in- digenous but were supposed to be a colony of Arcadians.” Nev- ertheless, these people of Latium were thought by some Romans to have been residents of Italy from the beginning, ab originie, which gave us the Latin word aborigines for the original inhab- itants of a country.
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