apricot

• n. アプリコット; [園芸]杏の木; アプリコットイエロー
• adj.アプリコット?イエロー

ラテン語のmalum precoquum（早熟の果実）から。-cot、cookの過去分詞、熟す。

文字通り、早熟の果実という意味。

語根： a- ?「the」（アラビア語の定冠詞「al」の変化形、英語の定冠詞「the」に相当）＋ pri- ?「before」（接頭辞「pre」の母音変化形。）"）＋cot-?"ripe"（語根 "coc-"の変化形）。つまり、文字通りの意味は「早熟の（果実）」、すなわち「早熟の果実」である。

この名前は、アプリコットが他の種類の桃よりも早く熟すことを除けば、もともとは別の種類の桃だと考えられていたことに由来する。それゆえ、この奇妙な名前がついたのであり、この果物自体はもともと中国から西洋にもたらされたものである。

apricot

apricot: [16] The word apricot reached English by a peculiarly circuitous route from Latin. The original term used by the Romans for the apricot, a fruit which came ultimately from China, was prūnum Arminiacum or mālum Arminiacum ‘Armenian plum or apple’ (Armenia was an early source of choice apricots). But a new term gradually replaced these: mālum praecocum ‘early-ripening apple’ (praecocus was a variant of praecox, from which English gets precocious). Praecocum was borrowed by a succession of languages, making its way via Byzantine Greek beríkokkon and Arabic al birqūq ‘the apricot’ to Spanish albaricoque and Portuguese albricoque.

This was the source of the English word, but its earliest form, abrecock, shows that it had already acquired the initial abrof French abricot, and the final -t followed almost immediately. Spellings with p instead of b are also found in the 16th century.
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apricot (n.)

1550s, abrecock, from Catalan abercoc, related to Portuguese albricoque, from Arabic al-birquq, through Byzantine Greek berikokkia from Latin (malum) praecoquum "early-ripening (fruit)" (see precocious). Form assimilated to French abricot.

Latin praecoquis early-ripe, can probably be attributed to the fact that the fruit was considered a variety of peach that ripened sooner than other peaches .... [Barnhart]

The older Latin name for it was prunum Armeniacum or malum Armeniacum, in reference to supposed origin in Armenia. As a color name, first attested 1906.

1. The illustration shows a cluster of five roses coloured apricot orange.

イラストにはアプリコットオレンジ色のバラが5輪描かれている。

2.The bridesmids wore apricot and white organza.

付き添い人は、杏の黄色と白の間の透明なハーネスドレスを着ている。

3.The heavy curtains were a warm apricot .

これらの重厚なカーテンは温かみのあるアンズ色です。

4.With so much spring in the garden，how can it be contained？A spray of red apricot blossom has already reached over the wall.

春の色に閉ざされ、赤い杏が壁から出てきた。

5.Economic crops include flax，canola，yellow， apricot ，apple and soon.

経済作物には、胡麻、小松菜、黄花、杏、リンゴなどがある。