英语词汇linden tree的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

linden tree. The handsome linden, or lime, or basswood tree (Tilia) is of interest here because it gave its name to the greatest of botanists and the greatest of name-givers. The sto- ry is best told by the American botanist L. H. Bailey in his classic but unfortunately out-of-print treatise How Plants Get Their Names, 1933: “Carl Linnaeus was born in southern Sweden in 1707. His father, Nils Ingermarsson, took a Latin surname when he began his school and university career to become a scholar and eventually a churchman, adapting it from a certain famous lind, the lime-tree or linden. It was custom in those days for persons to choose a Latin name or to Latinize the patronymic. The family of the cousins of Linnaeus chose the name Tiliander from the same tree, Tilia being Lat- in for the lindens. Another branch of the family became Lin- delius. The particular lind tree, it is written, ‘had acquired a sanctity amongst the neighbors, who firmly believed that ill- fortune surely befell those who took even a twig from the grand and stately tree.’ Even the fallen twigs were dangerous to remove, and they were heaped about the base of the tree. It had perished by 1823. To the people the name Linnaeus was rendered Linné, the accent preserving the essential pronun- ciation of the word. Linnaeus, for his part, wrote that ‘Lin- naeus or Linné are the same to me; one is Latin, the other Swedish.’ His great Latin books were written naturally under the name Linnaeus, and thus is he mostly known to natural- ists. In later life a patent of nobility was granted him and he was then Carl von Linné. We find him signing himself as Carolus Linnaeus Smolander, his province or nation being Smoland and Carolus being the Latin form of Carl or Charles; also as Carl Linnaeus, Carl Linné, and Carl v. Linné. This much is by way of preface to explain the forms in which the name of this marvellous man appear.” See linnaean system.

词汇	linden tree
词源	linden tree. The handsome linden, or lime, or basswood tree (Tilia) is of interest here because it gave its name to the greatest of botanists and the greatest of name-givers. The sto- ry is best told by the American botanist L. H. Bailey in his classic but unfortunately out-of-print treatise How Plants Get Their Names, 1933: “Carl Linnaeus was born in southern Sweden in 1707. His father, Nils Ingermarsson, took a Latin surname when he began his school and university career to become a scholar and eventually a churchman, adapting it from a certain famous lind, the lime-tree or linden. It was custom in those days for persons to choose a Latin name or to Latinize the patronymic. The family of the cousins of Linnaeus chose the name Tiliander from the same tree, Tilia being Lat- in for the lindens. Another branch of the family became Lin- delius. The particular lind tree, it is written, ‘had acquired a sanctity amongst the neighbors, who firmly believed that ill- fortune surely befell those who took even a twig from the grand and stately tree.’ Even the fallen twigs were dangerous to remove, and they were heaped about the base of the tree. It had perished by 1823. To the people the name Linnaeus was rendered Linné, the accent preserving the essential pronun- ciation of the word. Linnaeus, for his part, wrote that ‘Lin- naeus or Linné are the same to me; one is Latin, the other Swedish.’ His great Latin books were written naturally under the name Linnaeus, and thus is he mostly known to natural- ists. In later life a patent of nobility was granted him and he was then Carl von Linné. We find him signing himself as Carolus Linnaeus Smolander, his province or nation being Smoland and Carolus being the Latin form of Carl or Charles; also as Carl Linnaeus, Carl Linné, and Carl v. Linné. This much is by way of preface to explain the forms in which the name of this marvellous man appear.” See linnaean system.
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