ecology的词源

英文词源

ecology

ecology: [19] Interpreted literally, ecology means ‘study of houses’. The word was coined, as ökologie, by the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel in the 1870s, on the basis of Greek oikos (as in economy). This means literally ‘house’, but Haeckel was using it in the wider sense ‘dwelling, habitat’. English adopted the word soon after its coinage, originally in the quasi- Latin form oecology.
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ecology (n.)

1873, oecology, "branch of science dealing with the relationship of living things to their environments," coined in German by German zoologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) as Ökologie, from Greek oikos "house, dwelling place, habitation" (see villa) + -logia "study of" (see -logy). In use with reference to anti-pollution activities from 1960s.

中文词源

ecology：生态学

eco-, 家，生态。-logy, 学说。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：ecology 词源，ecology 含义。

ecology：生态学

希腊语oikos(房屋)产生了德语词汇ökologie，进入英语成为ecology，所以按字面意思ecology指"研究房屋的学问"， 扩大为"研究居住地或栖息地的学问" → 生态学。

词根词缀： -eco-生态 + -logy…学

来自oikos，PIE*weik“聚居区，宗族，家族”的衍生词：

villa：别墅。来自拉丁语vicus, 村庄，聚居区。

villain：村民，恶棍，流氓。

vicinity：街区。

oikos：家，屋子，聚居区。

ecology：生态学。

economy：经济学。

ecumenical：基督教宗教合一的，一般的，普通的。

Greenwich：绿色村庄，格陵尼治天文台。

Sandwich：沙村，沙堡，三明治。

diocese：主教教区，来自希腊语dioikesis,来自dia-,穿过，oikos,屋子，聚居区。

parochial：来自拉丁语parochia, 来自希腊语paroikos,来自para-, 在周围，oikos, 屋子，聚居区。

parish：教区，堂区，行政小区，来自拉丁语parochia,教区，堂区。