英语词汇capsaicin的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	capsaicin
词源	capsaicin active component of chili peppers, 1851, from capsicum, the genus name of the plants from which it is extracted, + chemical suffixes. Capsicine (1816) was an earlier name of an impure form of it. Entries linking to capsaicin capsicum n. name given to the genus of pepper plants, a word of unknown origin. Perhaps it is irregularly formed from Latin capsa "box" (see case (n.2)) based on the shape of the fruit. It was adopted as a genus name through the writings of French botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708), but he did not explain the word. updated on April 17, 2022
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