英语词汇cologne的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cologne. A scent that almost takes its name from a woman. The Roman emperor Claudius established a colony in what was then Oppidum Ubiorum in 50 a.d., renaming the place Colo- nia Agrippina (“colony of Agrippina”) after his wife, Nero’s mother, who had been born there. This cumbersome name was later modified by the French to Cologne, which grew into the beautiful German cathedral city that we know today. When centuries later a resident Italian chemist, Johann Maria Farina, invented a perfume made with alcohol and aromatic citrus oils, it was named eau de cologne or cologne water, for the city where he had settled in 1709. “Agrippina” had been lost over the years and only a fragment of her colonia remained, but the perfume was unknowingly and obliquely named for her.

词汇	cologne
词源	cologne. A scent that almost takes its name from a woman. The Roman emperor Claudius established a colony in what was then Oppidum Ubiorum in 50 a.d., renaming the place Colo- nia Agrippina (“colony of Agrippina”) after his wife, Nero’s mother, who had been born there. This cumbersome name was later modified by the French to Cologne, which grew into the beautiful German cathedral city that we know today. When centuries later a resident Italian chemist, Johann Maria Farina, invented a perfume made with alcohol and aromatic citrus oils, it was named eau de cologne or cologne water, for the city where he had settled in 1709. “Agrippina” had been lost over the years and only a fragment of her colonia remained, but the perfume was unknowingly and obliquely named for her.
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