grape
英 [gre?p]
美 [ɡrep]
- n. 葡萄；葡萄酒；葡萄樹；葡萄色
- n. (Grape)人名；(法)格拉普；(德、瑞典)格拉佩
助記提示
1. The original notion perhaps was "vine hook for grape-picking".
中文詞源
grape 葡萄可能來自PIE*grep, 彎鉤，詞源同crook, croquet. 原指剪葡萄的鉤子，后指葡萄。
英文詞源
- grape
- grape: [13] Not surprisingly, given the northerliness of the British Isles, English does not have its own native word for ‘grape’. In Old English it was was called wīnberige, literally ‘wineberry’, and the Old French word grape which Middle English borrowed as grape meant ‘bunch of grapes’, not ‘grape’. It was probably a derivative of the verb graper ‘gather grapes’, which itself was based on the noun grape ‘hook’ (a relative of English cramp, crampon, and grapnel [14]).
The underlying notion is of a bunch of grapes being gathered with a sort of pruning hook. (The use of a word that originally meant ‘bunch’ for ‘grape’ is in fact fairly common: Czech hrozen, Romanian stugure, German traube, and Lithuanian keke all follow the same pattern, as does French raisin, source of English raisin.)
=> cramp, crampon, grapnel - grape (n.)
- mid-13c., "a grape, a berry of the vine," also collective singular, from Old French grape "bunch of grapes, grape" (12c.), probably a back-formation from graper "steal; grasp; catch with a hook; pick (grapes)," from a Frankish or other Germanic word, from Proto-Germanic *krappon "hook," from a group of Germanic words meaning "bent, crooked, hooked" (cognates: Middle Dutch crappe, Old High German krapfo "hook;" also see cramp (n.2)). The original notion thus perhaps was "vine hook for grape-picking." The vine is not native to England. The word replaced Old English winberige "wine berry." Spanish grapa, Italian grappa also are from Germanic.
雙語例句
- 1. He put a grape into his mouth and swallowed it whole.
- 他把一粒葡萄放入嘴里,整個吞了下去.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. Grape vines overarched the garden path.
- 葡萄藤在花園小路上方形成了拱形.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. The grape vine climbed up along the wall.
- 葡萄藤沿墻攀緣而上.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 4. The colouring pigments from the skins are not allowed to bleed into the grape juice.
- 外皮上的色素不能滲到葡萄汁里面去。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. He plucked a purple grape from the bunch and popped it in his mouth.
- 他從葡萄串上摘下一顆紫葡萄，往嘴里一塞。
來自柯林斯例句