helot
['helət]
GRE
英文词源
- helot (n.)
- 1570s (with a capital -h-) "Spartan serf," from Greek Heilotes, plural of Heilos, popularly associated with Helos, Laconian town reduced to serfdom by Sparta, but perhaps related to Greek halonai "be captured." In extended use by 1820s.
英英释意
- 1. (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord
