英语词汇cherry的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cherry. Cherries in English first meant one cherry, the word deriving from the French cerise (which came from the Latin cerasus) for the fruit. Cerise became cherries, but the s in cher- ries was dropped, because it made the singular word sound like a plural, and the result was cherrie or cherry. Much used as a simile in love poetry, from the Chinese poet Po Chu-i’s “mouth like a red cherry,” to Robert Herrick’s “cherry ripe,” the cherry surprisingly doesn’t have much of a reputation as a love food. At least there are not many erotic recipes available using it, save for standards like cherry pie and Cherries Jubilee. The word, of course, has served as both a synonym for a young girl and a young woman’s or young man’s virginity.

The Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas) has exceedingly hard wood that is said to have been used for the Trojan horse, and its bark yields the red dye used for the traditional Turkish fez. Ber- ries from a dwarf form of it were believed by the Scottish High- landers to create appetite, and they thus named the plant “Lus- a-chracis,” Gaelic for “plant of gluttony.”

词汇	cherry
词源	cherry. Cherries in English first meant one cherry, the word deriving from the French cerise (which came from the Latin cerasus) for the fruit. Cerise became cherries, but the s in cher- ries was dropped, because it made the singular word sound like a plural, and the result was cherrie or cherry. Much used as a simile in love poetry, from the Chinese poet Po Chu-i’s “mouth like a red cherry,” to Robert Herrick’s “cherry ripe,” the cherry surprisingly doesn’t have much of a reputation as a love food. At least there are not many erotic recipes available using it, save for standards like cherry pie and Cherries Jubilee. The word, of course, has served as both a synonym for a young girl and a young woman’s or young man’s virginity. The Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas) has exceedingly hard wood that is said to have been used for the Trojan horse, and its bark yields the red dye used for the traditional Turkish fez. Ber- ries from a dwarf form of it were believed by the Scottish High- landers to create appetite, and they thus named the plant “Lus- a-chracis,” Gaelic for “plant of gluttony.”
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