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語源 1

From Biblical Hebrew חִוִּי (ḥiwwî) +‎ -ite.

名詞

Hivite (plural Hivites)

1. (historical) A member of one group of descendants of Canaan, son of Ham, according to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 (10:17) in the Bible.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 10:15-18:

     And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

語源 2

From hive +‎ -ite, as a pun on bees and beehives.

名詞

Hivite (plural Hivites)

1. (slang) A student or alumnus of St Bees School, West Cumbria, England.

参照

• John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary