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caste

英 [kɑːst]美 [kæst]

n. （印度社會中的）種姓；（具有嚴格等級差別的）社會地位；（排他的）社會團體

n. (Caste)人名；(英、法)卡斯特

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星級詞彙:★★

記憶方法

1. 諧音“卡死他”。

中文詞源

caste 種姓制度

來自PIE *kes, 砍，切，進一步來自PIE*sek, 詞源同saw, segment。本義爲純粹的，後用來指印度的嚴格的種姓制度。

英語詞源

caste

caste: [16] Caste has no etymological connection with cast. It is borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese casta ‘race, breed’, a nominal use of the adjective casta ‘pure’, from Latin castus (source of English chaste). The notion underlying the word thus appears to be ‘racial purity’. Use of casta by the Portuguese in India with reference to the Hindu social groupings led to its being adopted in this sense by English in the 17th century.

=> chaste, incest

caste (n.)

1550s, "a race of men," from Latin castus "chaste," from castus "cut off, separated; pure" (via notion of "cut off" from faults), past participle of carere "to be cut off from" (and related to castration), from PIE *kas-to-, from root *kes- "to cut" (cognates: Latin cassus "empty, void"). Originally spelled cast in English and later often merged with cast (n.) in its secondary sense "sort, kind, style."

Application to Hindu social groups was picked up by English in India 1610s from Portuguese casta "breed, race, caste," earlier casta raça, "unmixed race," from the same Latin word. The current spelling of of the English word is from this reborrowing. Caste system is first recorded 1840.

權威例句

1. Caste is defined primarily by social honour attained through personal life-style.

社會等級制度主要是通過個人生活方式贏得的社會榮譽來確定。

2. He has two half-caste children.

他有兩個混血孩子。

3. The caste system was rigidly enforced.

過去印度的種姓制度非常嚴格。

4. The priestly caste does not normally intermarry with the warrior caste.

教士階級通常不與武土階級通婚.

5. He was born into the lowest caste.

他出生於最低賤的種姓.

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