archipelago
英語[編輯]
詞源[編輯]
源自意大利語 arcipelago,根據古希臘語 ἀρχι- (arkhi-, 「主要的」) + πέλαγος (pélagos, 「海洋」)構成,為愛琴海的名稱。愛琴海有很多島嶼,而「Arcipelago」原是指愛琴海的專有名詞,後泛化到可以指代有很多島嶼的海,後面又到這種海中的島嶼。
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名詞[編輯]
archipelago (複數 archipelagos 或 archipelagoes)
- (現罕用) 愛琴海
- 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview 2004, p. 413:
- [I]n his imagination he had settled his route, through Holland and France to Sicily, which he had long wished to see, and from thence to the Archipelago […] 。
- 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview 2004, p. 413:
- (集合名詞) 群島,一組島嶼
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- For many years past the whaleship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth. She has explored seas and archipelagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- (引申義) 像群島一樣散布的物體
- The Gulag Archipelago
- 古拉格建築群
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- archipelago在英語維基百科上的資料。維基百科 en
葡萄牙語[編輯]
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archipelago m (複數 archipelagos)
- arquipélago的已棄用拼寫 (葡萄牙使用至1911年9月,巴西使用至1920年代)