英文词源
- pommel (n.)
- mid-13c., "ornamental knob;" c. 1300, "knob at the end of a sword hilt," from Old French pomel (12c., Modern French pommeau), "rounded knob," diminutive of pom "hilt of a sword," from Late Latin pomellum, diminutive of Latin pomum "apple" (see Pomona), the connecting notion being "roundness." Sense of "front peak of a saddle" first recorded mid-15c. In Middle English poetry it also sometimes meant a woman's breast. The gymnast's pommel horse is attested from 1908.
中文词源
来自古法语pomel,圆球，圆节，来自pom,剑柄，来自拉丁语pomum,苹果，词源同pome.-el,小词后缀。后用于指剑柄的圆球装饰，马鞍的鞍头等。
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