英语词汇mulberry的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

mulberry. Legend has it that the mulberry takes its botanical name, Morus from the Greek morus, meaning “a fool.” Accord- ing to the Hortus Anglicus, this derivation is related to the fact that it “can’t be fooled,” that the tree “is reputed to be the wisest of all flowers as it never buds till the cold weather is past and gone.” As for the word mulberry itself, which should properly be morberry, it more prosaically derives from the Latin morus, which became mure in French. The English called the berry the “mureberry” at first, but this was difficult to pronounce (too many r’s) and was eventually corrupted to mulberry in every- day speech. An ancient legend recounted in Ovid’s Metamor- phoses tells how mulberries became red. Pyramus, a Babylonian youth, loved Thisbe, the girl next door, and when their parents forbade them to marry, they exchanged their vows through an opening in the wall between their two houses. Thisbe agreed to meet her lover at the foot of a white mulberry tree near the tomb of Ninus outside the city walls. But on reaching their trysting place she was frightened by a lion and dropped her veil when she fled deep into a cave. The lion, its mouth red from an- other kill, ripped the veil, covering it with blood, and when Pyramus arrived and found the bloody veil, he thought that Thisbe had been killed and devoured by the beast. Throwing himself on his sword, he committed suicide just as Thisbe emerged from the cave. Distraught at the sight of her dying lov- er, Thisbe, too, fell upon his sword and committed suicide, the blood of young love mingling and flowing to the roots of the white mulberry, which thereafter bore only red fruit.

词汇	mulberry
词源	mulberry. Legend has it that the mulberry takes its botanical name, Morus from the Greek morus, meaning “a fool.” Accord- ing to the Hortus Anglicus, this derivation is related to the fact that it “can’t be fooled,” that the tree “is reputed to be the wisest of all flowers as it never buds till the cold weather is past and gone.” As for the word mulberry itself, which should properly be morberry, it more prosaically derives from the Latin morus, which became mure in French. The English called the berry the “mureberry” at first, but this was difficult to pronounce (too many r’s) and was eventually corrupted to mulberry in every- day speech. An ancient legend recounted in Ovid’s Metamor- phoses tells how mulberries became red. Pyramus, a Babylonian youth, loved Thisbe, the girl next door, and when their parents forbade them to marry, they exchanged their vows through an opening in the wall between their two houses. Thisbe agreed to meet her lover at the foot of a white mulberry tree near the tomb of Ninus outside the city walls. But on reaching their trysting place she was frightened by a lion and dropped her veil when she fled deep into a cave. The lion, its mouth red from an- other kill, ripped the veil, covering it with blood, and when Pyramus arrived and found the bloody veil, he thought that Thisbe had been killed and devoured by the beast. Throwing himself on his sword, he committed suicide just as Thisbe emerged from the cave. Distraught at the sight of her dying lov- er, Thisbe, too, fell upon his sword and committed suicide, the blood of young love mingling and flowing to the roots of the white mulberry, which thereafter bore only red fruit.
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