c. 1600, from French créole (17c.), from Spanish criollo "person native to a locality," from Portuguese crioulo, diminutive of cria "person (especially a servant) raised in one's house," from criar "to raise or bring up," from Latin creare "to produce, create" (see create).
The exact sense varies with local use. Originally with no connotation of color or race; Fowler (1926) writes: "Creole does not imply mixture of race, but denotes a person either of European or (now rarely) of negro descent born and naturalized in certain West Indian and American countries." In U.S. use, applied to descendants of French and Spanish settlers in Louisiana from at least 1792. Of languages, from 1879. As an adjective, from 1748.
例文
1. She begins speaking in the Creole of Haiti.
彼女はハイチのクリオール語を話し始めた。
2.Coconut Rice Balls is a Creole dish.
ココナツ糸粉団はクリオール料理である。
3.It helps to know French and Creole if you want to understand some of the lyrics.
叙情詩を読みたければ、フランス語とクリオール語を学ぶのに役立ちます。
4.I heard that Maybelle 's little Creole came home safely.
そしてメイベルは？メイベルのリトル?クルールが無事に帰宅したと聞きました。
5. Creole started into something else,it was almost sardonic.