• n. 群島，列島；多島的海區(qū)

前綴arch-, 始，主要。詞根pelag, 海，見pelagic, 海面的，詞源同plan, 平的。指愛琴海，后指愛琴海眾多小島。

archipelago

archipelago: [16] Originally, archipelago was a quite specific term – it was the name of the Aegean Sea, the sea between Greece and Turkey. Derivationally, it is a compound formed in Greek from arkhi- ‘chief’ and pélagos ‘sea’ (source of English pelagic [17] and probably related to plain, placate, and please). The term ‘chief sea’ identified the Aegean, as contrasted with all the smaller lagoons, lakes, and inlets to which the word pélagos was also applied.

An ‘Englished’ form of the word, Arch-sea, was in use in the 17th century, and in sailors’ jargon it was often abbreviated to Arches: ‘An island called Augusto near Paros, in the Arches’, Sir T Roe, Negotiations 1626. A leading characteristic of the Aegean Sea is of course that it contains a large number of islands, and from the 16th century onwards we see a strong and steady move towards what is now the word’s main meaning, ‘large group of islands’.

The immediate source of the English word was Italian arcipelago, and some etymologists have speculated that rather than coming directly from Greek arkhipélagos, this may have been a sort of folk-etymological resuscitation of it based on a misunderstanding of Greek Aigaion pelagos ‘Aegean Sea’.
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archipelago (n.)

c. 1500, from Italian arcipelago "the Aegean Sea" (13c.), from Greek arkhipelagos, from arkhi- "chief" (see archon) + pelagos "sea" (see pelagic). The Aegean Sea being full of island chains, the meaning was extended in Italian to "any sea studded with islands." Klein, noting the absence of arkhipelagos in ancient or Medieval Greek (the modern word in Greek is borrowed from Italian) believe it is an Italian mistake for Aigaion pelagos "Aegean Sea" (Medieval Latin Egeopelagus), or influenced by that name.

1. And he spent his senility on an archipelago, far away from here.

當他年老的時候他住在了一個群島上, 遠離這里.

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2. The project is planned for Balta, one of the archipelago's main islands.

計劃此項目將建在群島的主島之一的巴爾塔島上.

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3. The rich life of Svalbard, Norway's Arctic archipelago, faces a creeping thaw.

生物資源豐富的斯瓦爾巴德群島, 挪威的北極群島, 面臨逐漸解凍的危機.

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4. Koh Larn ( Coral Island ) is the largest of Pattaya's archipelago.

瑯島 ( 珊瑚島 ) 是芭緹雅群島中最大的一個島嶼.

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5. A numerical study on the floristics of the Zhoushan Archipelago.

舟山群島植物區(qū)系地理的數(shù)值研究.

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