orchard: [OE] Etymologically, an orchard is probably simply a ‘plant-yard’. It appears to have been coined in the prehistoric Germanic period from *worti-, the ancestor of the now archaic English noun wort ‘plant, vegetable, herb’ (which is distantly related to root), and *gardaz, *gardon, forerunner of English yard and garden. Originally, as its derivation suggests, it was quite a broad term, covering vegetable gardens as well as enclosures for fruit trees, but by the 15th century it had more or less become restricted to the latter. => garden, yard
orchard (n.)
late Old English orceard "fruit garden," earlier ortgeard, perhaps reduced from wortgeard, from wort (Old English wyrt "vegetable, plant root") + geard "garden, yard" (the word also meant "vegetable garden" until 15c.); see yard (n.1). First element influenced in Middle English by Latin hortus (in Late Latin ortus) "garden," which also is from the root of yard (n.1).
例文
1. Each bamboo house was surrounded by a thriving orchard .
各竹やぐらの周りには茂った果樹園が広がっている。
2.She hired out to the owner of an apple orchard .
彼女はリンゴ園主に雇われている。
3.My orchard is bearing well this year.
今年は私の果樹園の果実が累積しています。
4.Until his death in 1986 Greenwood owned and operated an enormous pear orchard .
1986年に亡くなるまで、グリーンウッドは広大な面積の梨園を所有し管理していた。
5.A hundred acres of land was made into a peach and pear orchard .