| 释义 |
indigene, a. and n.|ˈɪndɪdʒiːn|
Also 7 -gin(e, 7–9 -gen.
[a. F. indigène (Rabelais, 16th c.), ad. L. indigena native, lit. ‘in-born’ person, f. indi- (indu-) ancient deriv. form of in prep. + gen- stem of gignĕre, in passive ‘to be born’.]
†A. adj. Native; = indigenous. Obs.
1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 491 They were Indigene, or people bred vpon that very soyle. 1675Evelyn Terra (1729) 7 All sorts of Mould, foreign or indigen. 1697― Numism. ix. 312 The Native, and truly Indigin are generally well shap'd.
B. n. A native.
1664Evelyn Sylva xxiv. 62 The Alaternus..thrives with us in England, as if it were an Indigene and Natural. 1679Ibid. (ed. 3) xvi. 68 The Birch..[is] doubtless a proper Indigene of England. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. i. 14 The Goths were indigenes of Scandia. 1817Coleridge Own Times (1850) III. 952 One of the true indigens of this planet. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. iv. (1873) 89 They differ, moreover, to a large extent, from the indigenes. 1876H. Spencer Princ. Sociol. (1877) I. 46 The Hill-tribes of India, which are remnants of indigenes planted by the flood of Aryans. |