colony

n. 殖民地；移民队

中文词源

colony 殖民地

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。

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.

1.【例】a colony of termites 一群白蚁2.【助记】谐音靠了你---靠了你们这些殖民地,英国才成为当时的日不落帝国3. colony 【克隆clone你】殖民地，侨居地，聚居地

1. The newly-occupied Italian colony of Libya rose in revolt in 1914.: 意大利新占领的殖民地利比亚于1914年发生叛乱。

2. Different animals in the colony had different manifestations of the disease.: 在这一群体里，这种疾病在不同的动物身上有着不同的表现。