英语词汇pumpkin的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

pumpkin. This member of the squash family originated in the Americas, where pumpkins were so ubiquitous among the Pilgrims that some wit wrote the following: “We have pump- kins at morning and pumpkins at noon, / If it were not for pumpkins we would soon be undoon.” The pumpkin didn’t get its name because it looks “pumped up” into a balloon shape. Pumpkin probably comes from the Greek pepon, a kind of mel- on, literally, “a fruit cooked by the sun.” Pepon became the Mid- dle French ponon, which became the English pompion, to which the diminutive suffix-kin was finally added. It is just another example of the many English words formed from mispronun- ciations of foreign words. Seneca is said to have written a satire on the deification of the Roman emperor Claudius Caesar, which he called Apocolocyntosis, coined from the Greek word for pumpkin and meaning “pumpkinification.” Pumpkinifica- tion, suggesting a swollen head the size of a pumpkin and “pumped up,” has meant pompous behavior or absurd glorifi- cation since at least the mid-19th century, when a British writer called attention to Seneca’s satire.

词汇	pumpkin
词源	pumpkin. This member of the squash family originated in the Americas, where pumpkins were so ubiquitous among the Pilgrims that some wit wrote the following: “We have pump- kins at morning and pumpkins at noon, / If it were not for pumpkins we would soon be undoon.” The pumpkin didn’t get its name because it looks “pumped up” into a balloon shape. Pumpkin probably comes from the Greek pepon, a kind of mel- on, literally, “a fruit cooked by the sun.” Pepon became the Mid- dle French ponon, which became the English pompion, to which the diminutive suffix-kin was finally added. It is just another example of the many English words formed from mispronun- ciations of foreign words. Seneca is said to have written a satire on the deification of the Roman emperor Claudius Caesar, which he called Apocolocyntosis, coined from the Greek word for pumpkin and meaning “pumpkinification.” Pumpkinifica- tion, suggesting a swollen head the size of a pumpkin and “pumped up,” has meant pompous behavior or absurd glorifi- cation since at least the mid-19th century, when a British writer called attention to Seneca’s satire.
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