植民地化
解説 Definition
colonizing は colonize（植民地化する、入植する）の現在分詞・動名詞です。名詞的には、ある地域を支配下に置いたり入植地にしたりする過程を指します。
The process or activity of settling in a territory and bringing it under the political, economic, or cultural control of an outside group or power. It often implies lasting changes imposed on the land and its existing population.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 colonize の語末の e を落として -ing を付けた形です。colony「植民地」→colonize「植民地化する」→colonizing「植民地化すること」と段階で覚えます。土地への単なる移住より、外部勢力が入植し支配や制度変更を進める過程を含む語で、colonizing lands・regions の形が典型です。
Start with colony, a settlement controlled by an outside power. Add -ize to form colonize, “to establish or turn into a colony,” then drop the final silent e before adding -ing: colonizing. This sequence makes both the spelling and meaning easy to reconstruct. The word is stronger than simply moving or settling somewhere because it commonly suggests control over territory and major effects on existing communities. Typical combinations include colonizing new lands, colonizing coastal regions, and the political or cultural effects of colonizing.
例文
The book examines colonizing in the nineteenth century.
その本は19世紀の植民地化を考察しています。
Colonizing new lands often changed local societies deeply.
新しい土地の植民地化は、しばしば地域社会を大きく変えました。
The course discusses the political effects of colonizing coastal regions.
その授業では、沿岸地域を植民地化することの政治的影響を扱います。
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colonizing の語源・成り立ち Etymology
colonizing は colonize＋-ing です。語幹 colony はラテン語 colonia「入植地」、さらに colonus「耕す人・入植者」にさかのぼり、-ize はギリシャ語由来の「〜化する」です。つまり「人を送り込んで土地を自分たちの植民地にする」が原像で、関連語は colony、colonist です。
Colonizing is formed from colonize by dropping the final silent e and adding -ing. Colonize is based on colony plus the verb-forming suffix -ize. Colony comes through Latin colonia, “settlement” or “colonial community,” from colonus, a farmer or settler, ultimately connected with cultivating land. The modern historical and political sense emphasizes settlement accompanied by outside control, not merely the movement of people into an unoccupied place.
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