英语词汇carat的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	carat
词源	carat [LME] This measure of the purity of gold and a unit of weight for precious stones comes via French from Italian carato, from Arabic kīrāţ, a unit of weight. The base is Greek keration used for both a carob seed and a unit of weight but literally ‘little horn’ describing the carob’s elongated seedpod.
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