英语词汇sherry的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

sherry. Via an indirect route, sherry is still another word that derives from Caesar’s name. Sherry is made in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, for which it was named, and Jerez in turn, commemorates Julius Caesar, having originally been called Xeres, this an adaptation of the Latin urbs Caesaris, “the town of Caesar.” Sixteenth-century Spaniards pronounced Jerez something like sherris, which the English adopted and changed to sherry because they believed sherris was a plural form. Shakespeare wrote “a good sherris-sack hath a twofold opera- tion in it” in Henry IV, Part II, but today the false singular is al- ways used. It is said that when Sir Francis Drake burned the port of Cádiz in 1587, he seized 2,500 butts of sherry from nearby Jerez. Drake called the wine sack, according to the old folk story, but the dockers unloading the barrels noted the let- ters XERES (for Jerez) on them and became the first to use the word zherry, or sherry.

词汇	sherry
词源	sherry. Via an indirect route, sherry is still another word that derives from Caesar’s name. Sherry is made in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, for which it was named, and Jerez in turn, commemorates Julius Caesar, having originally been called Xeres, this an adaptation of the Latin urbs Caesaris, “the town of Caesar.” Sixteenth-century Spaniards pronounced Jerez something like sherris, which the English adopted and changed to sherry because they believed sherris was a plural form. Shakespeare wrote “a good sherris-sack hath a twofold opera- tion in it” in Henry IV, Part II, but today the false singular is al- ways used. It is said that when Sir Francis Drake burned the port of Cádiz in 1587, he seized 2,500 butts of sherry from nearby Jerez. Drake called the wine sack, according to the old folk story, but the dockers unloading the barrels noted the let- ters XERES (for Jerez) on them and became the first to use the word zherry, or sherry.
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