英语词汇tomato的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

tomato. Those “affected” people who pronounce it “toe-mah- toe” are historically correct. The plant was first called tomate in Spain when introduced there from the New World, and even in the early 16th century it was pronounced in three syllables. The o incidentally has no place at all in “tomato,” apparently being there because mid-18th-century Englishmen erroneously be- lieved that it should have this common Spanish ending. Lycop- ersicon esculentum has also been called the wolf apple, the wolf peach, and the love apple. The first two designations arose be- cause most Americans thought that tomatoes were poisonous and didn’t eat them until about 1830—the tomato vine is, in fact, poisonous, the plant a member of the deadly nightshade family. “You say toe-may-toe and I say toe-mah-toe,” Cole Por- ter wrote, and he might have added if he had the space that Americans also pronounce the fruit’s name tamater, termater, mater, tomarters, and tomaties, among other variations. Re- gional pronunciations of the plural tomatoes are even stranger, including tomatoeses, tomatussis, and martisses. See also love apples.

词汇	tomato
词源	tomato. Those “affected” people who pronounce it “toe-mah- toe” are historically correct. The plant was first called tomate in Spain when introduced there from the New World, and even in the early 16th century it was pronounced in three syllables. The o incidentally has no place at all in “tomato,” apparently being there because mid-18th-century Englishmen erroneously be- lieved that it should have this common Spanish ending. Lycop- ersicon esculentum has also been called the wolf apple, the wolf peach, and the love apple. The first two designations arose be- cause most Americans thought that tomatoes were poisonous and didn’t eat them until about 1830—the tomato vine is, in fact, poisonous, the plant a member of the deadly nightshade family. “You say toe-may-toe and I say toe-mah-toe,” Cole Por- ter wrote, and he might have added if he had the space that Americans also pronounce the fruit’s name tamater, termater, mater, tomarters, and tomaties, among other variations. Re- gional pronunciations of the plural tomatoes are even stranger, including tomatoeses, tomatussis, and martisses. See also love apples.
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