英语词汇lentil的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	lentil
词源	lentil; lens. Lentils are the beans that made the mess of pot- tage that the Bible implies Esau traded his brother for (though Scripture nowhere mentions the phrase “a mess of pottage”); they take their name from the Latin word for the bean, which also gives us the word lens, a double convex lens resembling a lentil bean in shape.
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