flour的词源

英文词源

flour

flour: [13] Etymologically, flour is the same word as flower. It originally meant the ‘flower’, or ‘finest part’, of ground grain, and hence eventually just ‘ground (and more or less sifted) grain’. The distinction in spelling between flour and flower did not emerge until the late 18th century, and the spelling flower for ‘flour’ persisted into the early 19th century.
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flour (n.)

"finer portion of ground grain," mid-13c., from flower (n.), and maintaining its older spelling, on the notion of flour as the "finest part" of meal, perhaps as the flower is the finest part of the plant or the fairest plant of the field (compare French fleur de farine), as distinguished from the coarser parts (meal (n.2)). Old French flor also meant both "a flower, blossom" and "meal, fine flour." The English word also was spelled flower until flour became the accepted form c. 1830 to end confusion. Flour-knave "miller's helper" is from c. 1300.

flour (v.)

"to sprinkle with flour," 1650s, from flour (n.). Meaning "convert (wheat) into flour" is from 1828. Related: Floured; flouring.

中文词源

flour：面粉

来自词根flor, 花，词源同flower. 面粉义来自其比喻义花粉，精华。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：flour 词源，flour 含义。

flour：面粉

从词源上来说，flour和flower本是一个词，拼写常混用，原先既指“花”也指“（谷物等磨成的）粉”。直到19世纪flour和flower在拼写上才有了正式区分，意义也才开始有了分工。例如，在Thomas Tryon所写的Wisdom's Dictates(1691) 一书中可以找到“Milk，Water，and Flower”这样的短语，而在诗人弥尔顿(John Milton，1608 - 1674)的长诗《失乐园》（Paradise Lost）中则可以看到“O flours That never will in other climate grow.”这样的诗句。前者中的flower显然指“面粉”，而后者中的flour则显然指的是“花”。这和它们的今义恰恰相反。(参见flower)

flour：面粉

flower的同源异体词,原义“花,精华”。

-flour-花 → flour面粉