orchard的词源

英文词源

orchard

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).

中文词源

orchard：果园

几百年前，这个词拼作ortgeard；ort来自拉丁词hortus，意思是“garden（花园）”；geard即“yard”，是古英语的写法；合起来则是“花园庭院”的意思。

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orchard：果园

来自古英语ortgeard,果园，来自ort-,缩写自拉丁语hortus,花园，词源同horticulture,geard,庭院，院子，词源同garden.