linguister

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Synonym of interpreter, particularly; A native interpreter assisting Europeans in colonial contexts. archaic,historical
    — 1666, letter from William Acworth, in Siam, to George Oxenden of the British East India Company, cited in John Anderson, English Intercourse with Siam in the Seventeenth Century, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1890, p. 105, […] the Portuguese very privatly gives information […] that it [the murder] was done by one of my people and by my order[;] this young man whom they accused was my linguister […]
  2. Synonym of interpreter, particularly; A native agent facilitating European trade in East and Central Africa in colonial contexts. archaic,historical
    — One day a linguister, a native commission agent, arrived in a trading canoe, and stated that […] a prince some way up the river […] had [said] […] that if I sent him five longs and five gallons of rum he would […] let my trade pass.

词形变化

linguisters plural lingster alternative linkister alternative linkster alternative

词源

Probably from Portuguese lingüista (“linguist”) reinterpreted as linguist + -er.
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