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单词 palafitte
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palafitten.

Brit. /ˈpaləfɪt/, /ˌpaləˈfiːt/, U.S. /ˈpæləˌfɪt/, /ˌpæləˈfit/
Inflections: Plural palafittes, unchanged.
Forms: 1800s– palafite, 1800s– palafitte.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French palafitte.
Etymology: < French palafitte (1865 in the original of quot. 1866) < Italian palafitta (1864 in the archaeological sense; c1350 in sense ‘fence of piles or stakes’, 1611 or earlier in specific sense ‘underwater foundation of piles’) < palo stake, pile (see pale n.1) + fitto fixed, driven in (past participle of figgere : see fix v.), in archaeological use in Italian probably after German Pfahlbau, literally ‘pile-building’ (1854 in F. Keller Die keltischen Pfahlbauten in den Schweizerseen (monograph title)).
Archaeology.
Esp. in Switzerland and northern Italy: a prehistoric hut or settlement built on stakes driven into the bed of a lake; a lake village.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > prehistoric dwellings
broch1654
crannog1851
pile-building1863
pile-work1863
fascine dwelling1865
lake-habitation1865
palafitte1866
terramare1866
roundhouse1872
mound dwelling1897
wag1911
wheel-dwelling1931
wheelhouse1935
1866 E. Desor in Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. Pref. 348 (title) Palafittes, or lacustrian constructions of Lake of Neuchatel.
1899 S. Baring-Gould Bk. of West II. 87 In the lake is a cranogue, or subaqueous cairn, on which was formerly a palafite dwelling.
1944 S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha Rebellion in Backlands ii. vi. 281 That same curiosity which the archeologist experiences as he comes upon the palafittes of a pile-built village alongside an industrial city in modern Switzerland.
1964 J. Hogarth tr. H. Harrel-Courtès Etruscan Italy iii. 22 Some of the rooms are devoted to objects from the lake cities and palafitte of the plain of the Po.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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