creole

n. 克里奥尔人；克里奥耳语

adj. 克里奥尔语的；克里奥尔人的；克里奥耳式法语的

中文词源

Creole 克里奥尔人

词源同create, 创造。原指欧洲殖民者，特别是西班牙人在南美，加勒比海区域与当地人生育的后代，后来也指这些后代所使用的语言，比较pidgin, Tok Pisin.

creole: creole: see creature
creole (n.): c. 1600, from French créole (17c.), from Spanish criollo "person native to a locality," from Portuguese crioulo, diminutive of cria "person (especially a servant) raised in one's house," from criar "to raise or bring up," from Latin creare "to produce, create" (see create).

The exact sense varies with local use. Originally with no connotation of color or race; Fowler (1926) writes: "Creole does not imply mixture of race, but denotes a person either of European or (now rarely) of negro descent born and naturalized in certain West Indian and American countries." In U.S. use, applied to descendants of French and Spanish settlers in Louisiana from at least 1792. Of languages, from 1879. As an adjective, from 1748.

1、cre- "produce" + -ole.2、含义：不同人种混血产生的混血儿，当然这里主要是指居住在西印度群岛、美国南部、拉丁美洲的非洲人和欧洲人的混血儿、后裔；还有就是某些地方通用的混合了不同语言而形成、产生的新语言。

3. It helps to know French and Creole if you want to understand some of the lyrics.: 如果你想读懂一些抒情诗，学点法语和克里奥尔语是有帮助的。

4. I heard that Maybelle's little Creole came home safely.: 还有梅贝尔呢?我听说梅贝尔的小克留尔安全返家了.

5. Creole started into something else, it was almost sardonic.: 克里奥尔又开始了, 这次几乎是在嘲笑.