英文词源
- pomegranate
- pomegranate: [14] The pomegranate is etymologically the ‘many-seeded apple’. The word’s ultimate ancestor was Latin mālum grānātum (mālum gave English malic ‘of apples’ [18], and grānātus was derived from grānum ‘seed’, source of English grain). In Vulgar Latin this became reduced to simply *grānāta, which passed into Old French as grenate (source of English grenade, so named because early grenades looked like pomegranates).
Before long pome ‘apple’ was added to the term, giving pome grenate – whence English pomegranate. Pome came from Latin pōmum ‘apple, fruit’, which also gave English pomade [16] (an ointment so called because the original version was apple-scented), pomander [15] (etymologically an ‘apple of amber’), pommel [14] (etymologically a ‘little fruit’), and pomology [19].
=> garnet, grain, grenade, pomade, pomander, pommel - pomegranate (n.)
- c. 1300, poumgarnet (a metathesized form), from Old French pome grenate (Modern French grenade) and directly from Medieval Latin pomum granatum, literally "apple with many seeds," from pome "apple; fruit" (see Pomona) + grenate "having grains," from Latin granata, fem. of granatus, from granum "grain" (see grain). The classical Latin name was malum granatum "seeded apple." Italian form is granata, Spanish is granada. The -gra- spelling restored in English early 15c.
中文词源
pomegranate（石榴）：有许多颗粒的水果
英语单词pomegranate（石榴）来自拉丁语pomum granatum，字面意思就是“有许多颗粒的水果”，由pome（水果） grenate（许多颗粒）构成。石榴得此名称是因为它切开后里面含有大量颗粒状的石榴籽。
pomegranate：['pɒmɪgrænɪt] n.石榴
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pomegranate：石榴
pome,苹果，水果，-gran,颗粒，词源同grain.即有籽的苹果，用于指石榴。