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Asiatic means “from Asia” or “to do with Asia.” It is an older, more cousin of the everyday word Asian. You still meet it in science and plant names (Asiatic lily, Asiatic black bear) and in older writing. Though actually, when it is used about people, many speakers now hear it as cold or — especially in American English — so students should use Asian for people and for almost all modern writing. As a noun, “an Asiatic” for a person is widely taken as rude. The word came into English from Latin āsiāticus, which is Asia plus an ending, -atic.
亞洲的（舊稱「亞細亞的」；指人時現在說 Asian／亞洲人，Asiatic 易顯過時或不敬）
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Asiaticadj/eɪʒiˈætɪk/
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datedAsian, specifically, relating to the parts of Asia east of Egypt, i.e the Middle East or West Asia.
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slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsEccentric or crazy as a result of spending a long time in the Far East.
- A soldier might grab his rifle and batter his way to the heart of some Jap position. Back home they gave him all sorts of medals but his companions dismissed him as the poor bastard who finally went Asiatic.
- “[…] This ship has been in the forward area since March ’42. It’s been through a lot of action. The men are all Asiatic. They probably think a fantail watch in Pearl Harbor is foolishness. […]”
Asiaticnoun/eɪʒiˈætɪk/
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offensivedatedAn Asian.
- […] the Aryan races will not wholesomely amalgamate with the Africans or the Asiatics […] the cross of those races, like the cross of the dog and the fox, is not successful; it cannot be, and never will be.
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Egyptologyhistoryhuman-sciencesOne of the people of ancient Canaan, Syria, or Mesopotamia; a Semite.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。