pumpkin

英 ['p?m(p)k?n] 美['p?mpk?n]

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復數:?pumpkins;

pumpkin 南瓜，小圓南瓜，西葫蘆

來自中古法語pompon,南瓜，來自拉丁語peponem,甜瓜，瓜果，來自希臘語peptein,煮熟，成熟，來自PIE*pekw,煮，炒，詞源同cook,peptide,dyspeptic.-kin,小詞后綴。比喻用法。

pumpkin: pumpkin: [17] Much as they look as though they had been blown up with a pump, pumpkins have no etymological connection with pumps. Greek pépōn denoted a variety of melon that was not eaten until it was fully ripe (the word was a noun use of the adjective pépōn ‘ripe’). Latin took it over as pepō, and passed it on to Old French as *pepon. Through a series of vicissitudes this evolved via popon to early modern French pompon. This was borrowed into English in the 16th century, and soon altered to pompion; and in the 17th century the native diminutive suffix -kin was grafted on to it to produce pumpkin.
pumpkin (n.): 1640s, alteration of pompone, pumpion "melon, pumpkin" (1540s), from Middle French pompon, from Latin peponem (nominative pepo) "melon," from Greek pepon "melon," probably originally "cooked (by the sun)," hence "ripe;" from peptein "to cook" (see cook (n.)). Pumpkin-pie is recorded from 1650s. Pumpkin-head, American English colloquial for "person with hair cut short all around" is recorded from 1781. Vulgar American English alternative spelling punkin attested by 1806.
America's a dandy place:
The people are all brothers:
And when one's got a punkin pye,
He shares it with the others.

[from "A Song for the Fourth of July, 1806," in "The Port Folio," Philadelphia, Aug. 30, 1806]

1. Pumpkin pie is a traditional American dish served on Thanksgiving.: 南瓜餡餅是美國傳統的感恩節食物。

2. Pumpkin pie is a traditional American dish served on Thanksgiving.: 南瓜餡餅是美國傳統的感恩節食物.

3. To make a Halloween lantern, you first have to gouge out the inside of the pumpkin.: 要做一個萬圣節燈籠, 你先得挖空這個南瓜.