出典:Wiktionary
Possibly borrowed from French sériculture, a modification of French sériciculture (“sericulture”) (または directly from sériciculture),[1] from Late Latin sēricum (“Chinese goods, especially silk”) + French culture (“crop; culture”).[2] Sēricum is derived from Latin sēricus (“of or pertaining to the Seres or Chinese; (by extension) made of silk, silken”), from Sēres (“northern Chinese people”), from Ancient Greek Σῆρες (Sêres, “the Chinese people; the land of the Chinese, China”), plural of Σήρ (Sḗr, “(まれに, usually in 複数形) Chinese person; silkworm”), possibly from Old Chinese 絲 (*slɯ, “silk”).
sericulture (usually uncountable, 複数形 sericultures)