英语词汇ferule的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ferule. Ferula communis, or the giant fennel, is a plant that became famous as a switch or stick used in classrooms on diso- bedient students. This member of the fennel family, which takes its name from the Latin for “stick,” grows up to 8 to 12 feet high and was grown by the Romans both for its handsome yellow flowers and for the dried pith of its stems, which provid- ed excellent tinder for starting fires. But by the 16th century the pliable stalks of the plant were being used as schoolroom switches, their name slightly changed to ferule. Eventually fer- ule was applied to “a sort of flat ruler, widened at the inflicting end into a shape resembling a pear . . . with a . . . hole in the middle, to raise blisters.”

词汇	ferule
词源	ferule. Ferula communis, or the giant fennel, is a plant that became famous as a switch or stick used in classrooms on diso- bedient students. This member of the fennel family, which takes its name from the Latin for “stick,” grows up to 8 to 12 feet high and was grown by the Romans both for its handsome yellow flowers and for the dried pith of its stems, which provid- ed excellent tinder for starting fires. But by the 16th century the pliable stalks of the plant were being used as schoolroom switches, their name slightly changed to ferule. Eventually fer- ule was applied to “a sort of flat ruler, widened at the inflicting end into a shape resembling a pear . . . with a . . . hole in the middle, to raise blisters.”
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