aboriginen.adj.

Brit.

/ˌabəˈrɪdʒᵻni/, U.S.

/ˌæbəˈrɪdʒəni/

Forms: Plural 1500s– aborigenes, 1500s– aborigines, 1800s aboriginees. Singular 1800s aboriginee, 1800s– aborigene (rare), 1800s– aborigine.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin aborīginēs.

Etymology: Originally (as plural) < classical Latin aborīginēs (plural) original inhabitants of a country (spec. a race of pre-Roman inhabitants of Italy), original founders of a city < ab orīgine ab origine adv. The singular form aborigine was formed from the English plural in the 19th cent. by analogical removal of final -s ; for earlier singular forms see aboriginal n., and also aborigen n. Compare Middle French, French aborigènes (noun, plural) early inhabitants of Italy (mid 14th cent.), first inhabitants of Latium (1570), earliest inhabitants of a country (1582), French aborigène , adjective (1756), Italian aborigeni (noun, plural) (1546). Compare also Aberginian n. and discussion at that entry.In forms aborigenes, aborigene probably after French.

A. n.

a. Originally (only in plural): the people or race which first inhabited Latium in Italy. In later use more generally: the earliest known inhabitants of a particular country (also in singular).

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > original inhabitant

aborigine?1529

autochthon1579

aborigen1587

native1603

originals1703

aboriginal1749

primitive1779

aboriginary1869

tangata whenua1949

?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman ii. ix. sig. g.iiij Fauna wyfe vnto Faunus kynge of Thaborigines lyued many yeres.

1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes (1873) 214 The old latins..callyng themselfes Aborigines, that is to saie: a people from the beginnyng.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. ii. 3 The Aborigines and Trojanes wan indeed the field, but lost their Captaine Latinus.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 9 Diodorus and others..would have the Britans to be..meere Aborigines; that is, Homelings and not forren brought in.

1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 46 Towards the hilly corners of Druina remaine yet her very Aborigenes, and ancient Indigenæ.

1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 141 The ancient Britons are to us the Aborigines of our Island.

1799 R. Warner Let. 2 Sept. in Walk Western Counties (1800) 12 He may..please his fancy with discriminating between the vallations of the Celtic aborigenes, and the huge mounds of their Saxon invaders.

1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele 19 The Bube, as may be proved by his language, is an aborigine of the mainland.

a1878 B. Taylor Stud. German Lit. (1879) 3 The aborigines of Germany had their bards, their battle-songs and their sacrificial hymns.

1945 L. Spence Magic Arts Celtic Brit. (1999) iv. 54 Some British writers..held that Druidism was a cultus of the pre-Celtic Iberian aborigines of Britain.

1998 W. Ferguson Identity Sc. Nation (1999) xi. 239 For Macpherson, the Caledonians were Gaels and the true aborigines of Scotland.

b. A member of an ethnic group inhabiting or occupying a country before the arrival of European colonists and those whom they introduced. Cf. native n. 5a.In quot. 1868 as contrasted with black former slaves from the United States.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native people > [noun] > the original inhabitants of a territory

aborigine1724

1724 S. Sewall Let.-bk. II. 177 The Company's opinion as to educating some of the Aborigines so as to fit them for the work of the ministry.

1777 Acct. Island of Tobago 8 (note) Columbus gave this island the appellation of Tobago, or Tabago, from a whimsical notion that its form resembled that of a tubical instrument, so called by the Aborigines.

1780 G. Chalmers Polit. Ann. Present United Colonies ix. 207 Calvert, their leader..purchased the rights of the aborigines.

1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 214 It has been the lot of the unfortunate aborigines of America..to be doubly wronged by the white men.

1858 T. G. Vielé Following Drum 216 The aborigine was inclined to dispute the point.

1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 112 From 300,000 to 400,000 aborigines reside within the territory of Liberia.

1876 J. Burroughs Winter Sunshine (1883) vi. 133 If the red aborigine ever had his summer of fulness and contentment.

1902 S. E. White Conjuror's House ix. 107 We have in our weekly congregational singing over forty regular attendants from the aborigines.

1927 Bull. Art Inst. Chicago 21 40/2 His entrance into London in 1832 brought him further recognition: here was an American aborigine of wit and talent, and self-made.

1943 ‘J. Burger’ Black Man's Burden 12 The first aborigines with whom the Dutch officials came into contact were the Hottentots.

2005 Times (Nexis) 25 Nov. 47 About 80,000 Canadian aborigines will qualify for a share of the biggest pay out in the country's history.

c. Now usually with initial capital. A member of any of the numerous indigenous Australian peoples; an Australian Aboriginal person.Esp. in Australia, some consider Aboriginal to be preferable to Aborigine as the singular noun used to denote an indigenous Australian person, either on etymological grounds or (more often) because Aborigine is sometimes regarded as depreciatory.

ΚΠ

1803 Banks Papers in Austral. Nat. Dict. (1988) 2/3 Nature not having furnished it with food sufficient to maintain any other race of men than the Aborigines.

1829 H. Widowson Present State Van Diemen's Land 187 An aborigine has occasionally been seen in Hobart Town, but not of late years.

1869 W. M. Howell Reminisc. Austral. 33 A black man, an aboriginee, walked in.

1889 J. H. L. Zillmann Past & Present Austral. Life 113 My personal recollections..serve the..purpose of illustrating the character of the Aboriginees.

1917 Bulletin (Sydney) 5 July 22/2 The keenness of the aborigine's ear for bird notes is evidenced in the names resembling their call which he gave to familiar species.

1958 R. Ward Austral. Legend (1970) 201 No white man has ever been the equal of the Aborigines in essential bush skills.

1984 Daily Tel. 25 Oct. 19/2 Nine nomadic Aborigines who have never had direct contact with white people have been found in Central Australia.

2004 Wanderlust June–July 72/2 Hugh, a young and enthusiastic Aborigine, showed us honey ants, cicadas and witchetty grubs.

2. In extended use. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1646 H. Hammond View Exceptions to Visct. Falkland's Disc. Infallibilitie 102 It is we who are the Aborigines, as I may so tearm us, and thereby have at much right for all indemnity as our Ancestours could divolve upon us.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 119 The Aborigines and the Advenæ, the old Stock of Students, and the new Store brought in by St. Grimball.

1704 J. Swift Full Acct. Battel between Bks. in Tale of Tub 233 As to their own Seat, they were Aborigines of it.

1753 Ld. Kildare in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. (2008) 18 170 The natives of Ireland, your majesty's liege subjects, not only the aborigines thereof, but the English colonies.

1842 D. G. Rossetti Let. 1 Sept. (1965) I. 7 I do not much relish the idea of sitting for two hours the lodestone of attraction in the very centre of the aborigines [sc. residents of Chalfont-St Giles.]

1862 R. Henning Let. 10 Sept. (1966) 106 I, fearing aborigines [sc. insects], put my mattress on a sheet of zinc.

1946 ‘J. Tey’ Miss Pym Disposes xv. 154 He must have felt greatly at sea..among the aborigines of Leys Physical Training College.

†3. plural. The plants or animals indigenous to a place; native flora or fauna. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by habitat > [noun] > of a particular region (fauna) > native to that region

aboriginesa1661

the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [noun] > native plant(s)

domestic1682

aborigines1839

autochthon1893

endemic1932

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Oxfordshire 326 It seems these Bees were Aborigines, from the first building of the Colledge.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. vii. 199 Whereby it appears that the Brutes were not Aborigines.

a1706 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) i. i. 7 Aborigines descended immediately from the genius of the soils, climate.., and (like the Negroes-heads in the Barbadoes) as some imagine, even without seed, or at least any perceptible rudiment.

1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. vi. 138 I doubt whether any case is on record, of an invasion on so grand a scale of one plant over the aborigines.

4. Also with capital initial. An aboriginal language; spec. any of numerous Australian Aboriginal languages. Cf. aboriginal n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Australian Aboriginal > [noun]

aboriginal1845

yabber1855

aborigine1879

1879 ‘Australian’ Adventures Queensland 39 Bony..spoke a curious jargon—a mixture of bad English and aborigine—freely intermixed with snatches of profanity.

1893 Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Feb. 15/2 The word ‘warrigal’ was current aboriginee ere the British Lion deposited ‘our forefathers’ here.

1965 C. Shuttleworth Malayan Safari xi. 137 He could not speak Aborigine and, of course, could not speak Italian.

2006 Manila Standard (Nexis) 10 Nov. Australians don't speak aborigine yet they're staunchly ‘Aussie’.

B. adj. (attributive).

a. = aboriginal adj. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > New Zealand and Australian indigenous peoples > Australian Aboriginal peoples > [adjective]

aboriginal1825

aborigine1835

Australioid1864

Abo1911

1835 ‘A. S.’ Let. 18 June in G. C. Ingleton True Patriots All (1952) 163 Captain Pigeon, and his company, are placed on the ‘Aborigine Establishment’.

1887 Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Feb. 13/4 The ‘aboriginee’ missionaries in S.A. are well nigh despairing.

1925 Smith's Weekly (Sydney) 7 Feb. 17/7 The aborigine towris of the lower Murray.

1962 John o' London's 22 Mar. 266/1 An aborigine stockboy..is found to have been the victim of ‘bone-pointing’.

1988 P. Brook Shifting Point (1989) 140 The first anthropologists translated the Aborigine name for the pre-world of myth as ‘Dream-time’, and the word has stuck.

2007 Sunday News (Lancaster, Pa.) (Nexis) 13 May b10 An orphanage for aborigine children in Western Australia.

b. = aboriginal adj. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [adjective] > original inhabitant > relating to

aboriginal1693

aborigine1895

1895 Argosy Dec. 253/2 Some budding aborigine artist had made drawings with a species of black and red chalk.

1986 T. Mo Insular Possession xxii. 250 Canton and Kwei Lum cities, were until recent times..almost wholly inhabited by aborigine tribes.

2000 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 4 May 6 Two exhibitions on aborigine art at the National Art Gallery in 1960 and 1962.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	aborigine
释义	aboriginen.adj. Brit. /ˌabəˈrɪdʒᵻni/, U.S. /ˌæbəˈrɪdʒəni/ Forms: Plural 1500s– aborigenes, 1500s– aborigines, 1800s aboriginees. Singular 1800s aboriginee, 1800s– aborigene (rare), 1800s– aborigine. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin aborīginēs. Etymology: Originally (as plural) < classical Latin aborīginēs (plural) original inhabitants of a country (spec. a race of pre-Roman inhabitants of Italy), original founders of a city < ab orīgine ab origine adv. The singular form aborigine was formed from the English plural in the 19th cent. by analogical removal of final -s ; for earlier singular forms see aboriginal n., and also aborigen n. Compare Middle French, French aborigènes (noun, plural) early inhabitants of Italy (mid 14th cent.), first inhabitants of Latium (1570), earliest inhabitants of a country (1582), French aborigène , adjective (1756), Italian aborigeni (noun, plural) (1546). Compare also Aberginian n. and discussion at that entry.In forms aborigenes, aborigene probably after French. A. n. 1. a. Originally (only in plural): the people or race which first inhabited Latium in Italy. In later use more generally: the earliest known inhabitants of a particular country (also in singular). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > original inhabitant aborigine?1529 autochthon1579 aborigen1587 native1603 originals1703 aboriginal1749 primitive1779 aboriginary1869 tangata whenua1949 ?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman ii. ix. sig. g.iiij Fauna wyfe vnto Faunus kynge of Thaborigines lyued many yeres. 1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes (1873) 214 The old latins..callyng themselfes Aborigines, that is to saie: a people from the beginnyng. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. ii. 3 The Aborigines and Trojanes wan indeed the field, but lost their Captaine Latinus. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 9 Diodorus and others..would have the Britans to be..meere Aborigines; that is, Homelings and not forren brought in. 1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 46 Towards the hilly corners of Druina remaine yet her very Aborigenes, and ancient Indigenæ. 1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 141 The ancient Britons are to us the Aborigines of our Island. 1799 R. Warner Let. 2 Sept. in Walk Western Counties (1800) 12 He may..please his fancy with discriminating between the vallations of the Celtic aborigenes, and the huge mounds of their Saxon invaders. 1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele 19 The Bube, as may be proved by his language, is an aborigine of the mainland. a1878 B. Taylor Stud. German Lit. (1879) 3 The aborigines of Germany had their bards, their battle-songs and their sacrificial hymns. 1945 L. Spence Magic Arts Celtic Brit. (1999) iv. 54 Some British writers..held that Druidism was a cultus of the pre-Celtic Iberian aborigines of Britain. 1998 W. Ferguson Identity Sc. Nation (1999) xi. 239 For Macpherson, the Caledonians were Gaels and the true aborigines of Scotland. b. A member of an ethnic group inhabiting or occupying a country before the arrival of European colonists and those whom they introduced. Cf. native n. 5a.In quot. 1868 as contrasted with black former slaves from the United States. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native people > [noun] > the original inhabitants of a territory aborigine1724 1724 S. Sewall Let.-bk. II. 177 The Company's opinion as to educating some of the Aborigines so as to fit them for the work of the ministry. 1777 Acct. Island of Tobago 8 (note) Columbus gave this island the appellation of Tobago, or Tabago, from a whimsical notion that its form resembled that of a tubical instrument, so called by the Aborigines. 1780 G. Chalmers Polit. Ann. Present United Colonies ix. 207 Calvert, their leader..purchased the rights of the aborigines. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 214 It has been the lot of the unfortunate aborigines of America..to be doubly wronged by the white men. 1858 T. G. Vielé Following Drum 216 The aborigine was inclined to dispute the point. 1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 112 From 300,000 to 400,000 aborigines reside within the territory of Liberia. 1876 J. Burroughs Winter Sunshine (1883) vi. 133 If the red aborigine ever had his summer of fulness and contentment. 1902 S. E. White Conjuror's House ix. 107 We have in our weekly congregational singing over forty regular attendants from the aborigines. 1927 Bull. Art Inst. Chicago 21 40/2 His entrance into London in 1832 brought him further recognition: here was an American aborigine of wit and talent, and self-made. 1943 ‘J. Burger’ Black Man's Burden 12 The first aborigines with whom the Dutch officials came into contact were the Hottentots. 2005 Times (Nexis) 25 Nov. 47 About 80,000 Canadian aborigines will qualify for a share of the biggest pay out in the country's history. c. Now usually with initial capital. A member of any of the numerous indigenous Australian peoples; an Australian Aboriginal person.Esp. in Australia, some consider Aboriginal to be preferable to Aborigine as the singular noun used to denote an indigenous Australian person, either on etymological grounds or (more often) because Aborigine is sometimes regarded as depreciatory. ΚΠ 1803 Banks Papers in Austral. Nat. Dict. (1988) 2/3 Nature not having furnished it with food sufficient to maintain any other race of men than the Aborigines. 1829 H. Widowson Present State Van Diemen's Land 187 An aborigine has occasionally been seen in Hobart Town, but not of late years. 1869 W. M. Howell Reminisc. Austral. 33 A black man, an aboriginee, walked in. 1889 J. H. L. Zillmann Past & Present Austral. Life 113 My personal recollections..serve the..purpose of illustrating the character of the Aboriginees. 1917 Bulletin (Sydney) 5 July 22/2 The keenness of the aborigine's ear for bird notes is evidenced in the names resembling their call which he gave to familiar species. 1958 R. Ward Austral. Legend (1970) 201 No white man has ever been the equal of the Aborigines in essential bush skills. 1984 Daily Tel. 25 Oct. 19/2 Nine nomadic Aborigines who have never had direct contact with white people have been found in Central Australia. 2004 Wanderlust June–July 72/2 Hugh, a young and enthusiastic Aborigine, showed us honey ants, cicadas and witchetty grubs. 2. In extended use. Now rare. ΚΠ 1646 H. Hammond View Exceptions to Visct. Falkland's Disc. Infallibilitie 102 It is we who are the Aborigines, as I may so tearm us, and thereby have at much right for all indemnity as our Ancestours could divolve upon us. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 119 The Aborigines and the Advenæ, the old Stock of Students, and the new Store brought in by St. Grimball. 1704 J. Swift Full Acct. Battel between Bks. in Tale of Tub 233 As to their own Seat, they were Aborigines of it. 1753 Ld. Kildare in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. (2008) 18 170 The natives of Ireland, your majesty's liege subjects, not only the aborigines thereof, but the English colonies. 1842 D. G. Rossetti Let. 1 Sept. (1965) I. 7 I do not much relish the idea of sitting for two hours the lodestone of attraction in the very centre of the aborigines [sc. residents of Chalfont-St Giles.] 1862 R. Henning Let. 10 Sept. (1966) 106 I, fearing aborigines [sc. insects], put my mattress on a sheet of zinc. 1946 ‘J. Tey’ Miss Pym Disposes xv. 154 He must have felt greatly at sea..among the aborigines of Leys Physical Training College. †3. plural. The plants or animals indigenous to a place; native flora or fauna. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habitat > [noun] > of a particular region (fauna) > native to that region aboriginesa1661 the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [noun] > native plant(s) domestic1682 aborigines1839 autochthon1893 endemic1932 a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Oxfordshire 326 It seems these Bees were Aborigines, from the first building of the Colledge. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. vii. 199 Whereby it appears that the Brutes were not Aborigines. a1706 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) i. i. 7 Aborigines descended immediately from the genius of the soils, climate.., and (like the Negroes-heads in the Barbadoes) as some imagine, even without seed, or at least any perceptible rudiment. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. vi. 138 I doubt whether any case is on record, of an invasion on so grand a scale of one plant over the aborigines. 4. Also with capital initial. An aboriginal language; spec. any of numerous Australian Aboriginal languages. Cf. aboriginal n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Australian Aboriginal > [noun] aboriginal1845 yabber1855 aborigine1879 1879 ‘Australian’ Adventures Queensland 39 Bony..spoke a curious jargon—a mixture of bad English and aborigine—freely intermixed with snatches of profanity. 1893 Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Feb. 15/2 The word ‘warrigal’ was current aboriginee ere the British Lion deposited ‘our forefathers’ here. 1965 C. Shuttleworth Malayan Safari xi. 137 He could not speak Aborigine and, of course, could not speak Italian. 2006 Manila Standard (Nexis) 10 Nov. Australians don't speak aborigine yet they're staunchly ‘Aussie’. B. adj. (attributive). a. = aboriginal adj. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > New Zealand and Australian indigenous peoples > Australian Aboriginal peoples > [adjective] aboriginal1825 aborigine1835 Australioid1864 Abo1911 1835 ‘A. S.’ Let. 18 June in G. C. Ingleton True Patriots All (1952) 163 Captain Pigeon, and his company, are placed on the ‘Aborigine Establishment’. 1887 Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Feb. 13/4 The ‘aboriginee’ missionaries in S.A. are well nigh despairing. 1925 Smith's Weekly (Sydney) 7 Feb. 17/7 The aborigine towris of the lower Murray. 1962 John o' London's 22 Mar. 266/1 An aborigine stockboy..is found to have been the victim of ‘bone-pointing’. 1988 P. Brook Shifting Point (1989) 140 The first anthropologists translated the Aborigine name for the pre-world of myth as ‘Dream-time’, and the word has stuck. 2007 Sunday News (Lancaster, Pa.) (Nexis) 13 May b10 An orphanage for aborigine children in Western Australia. b. = aboriginal adj. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [adjective] > original inhabitant > relating to aboriginal1693 aborigine1895 1895 Argosy Dec. 253/2 Some budding aborigine artist had made drawings with a species of black and red chalk. 1986 T. Mo Insular Possession xxii. 250 Canton and Kwei Lum cities, were until recent times..almost wholly inhabited by aborigine tribes. 2000 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 4 May 6 Two exhibitions on aborigine art at the National Art Gallery in 1960 and 1962. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.?1529
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