英语词汇cereal的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cereal. Gardeners have prayed to many garden deities through the ages. After a drought ruined crops in 496 b.c., Ro- man priests insisted that a new goddess named Ceres be wor- shipped and prayed to for rain. When the drought ended, Ceres became protector of the crops and the first grains harvested each year were sacrificed to her and called cerealis, meaning “of Ceres.” From cerealis came the English word cereal, which hon- ors the goddess every morning on millions of breakfast tables. Ceres’ Greek counterpart was Demeter, the goddess of fruit, crops, and vegetables.

词汇	cereal
词源	cereal. Gardeners have prayed to many garden deities through the ages. After a drought ruined crops in 496 b.c., Ro- man priests insisted that a new goddess named Ceres be wor- shipped and prayed to for rain. When the drought ended, Ceres became protector of the crops and the first grains harvested each year were sacrificed to her and called cerealis, meaning “of Ceres.” From cerealis came the English word cereal, which hon- ors the goddess every morning on millions of breakfast tables. Ceres’ Greek counterpart was Demeter, the goddess of fruit, crops, and vegetables.
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