pomegranate

英語

詞源

石榴（意思1）

石榴樹（意思2）

名詞衍生自中古英語 pome-garnet、pome-garnete、pome garnate、pome granat、pome-granate (“石榴果；石榴樹；石榴種子(?)”) [以及其他形式]，^[1]來自盎格魯-諾曼語 pome gernate、pomme gernette、中古法語 pomme granade、pomme granate、pomme grenade、和古法語 pome grenade、pome grenate、pomme grenate [以及其他形式] (現代法語 grenade)，可能來自意大利語 pomogranato、pomo granato (雖然是後來才被證實)，和其他可能的說法：^[2]

來自意大利語 pomo (“果實、梨果；蘋果”) + 拉丁語 (mālum) grānātum、(mālo)grānātum (“石榴”)；或
直接來自中世紀拉丁語 pōmum garnātum、pōmum grānātum (“石榴”)，來自拉丁語 pōmum (“果實；果樹”) + grānātum (“石榴”)。Pōmum的源頭可能衍生自原始印歐語 *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“脫下”) (摘除植物的意思上)，來自*h₂epó (“離開；關閉”) + *h₁em- (“分發；拿”)；然而grānātum是衍生自grānātus (“有一些穀物或種子”)，來自grānum (“穀物、種子、小果仁”) (可能源頭來自原始印歐語 *ǵerh₂- (“成熟，老成”) + *-nós (動詞性形容詞後綴)) + -ātus (表示從名詞擁有某種質量或事物的形容詞後綴)。

形容詞衍生自名詞。^[2]

發音

(標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/
音頻 (正統英式)： (檔案)
(通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈpɑmɪˌɡɹænɪt/, /ˈpɑməˌɡɹænət/, /ˈpɑmˌɡɹænət/
斷字：po‧me‧gra‧nate

名詞

pomegranate (複數 pomegranates)

石榴
- 1725, Homer, [Alexander Pope], transl., “Book VII”, 出自 The Odyssey of Homer. […], 第 II 卷, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC，第 106 頁，第 148–151 行s:
  Here the blue fig with luſcious juice o'erflows, / With deeper red the full pomegranate glows, / The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear, / And verdant olives flouriſh round the year.
  （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
- Template:RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Pompeii
- Template:RQ:Longfellow Golden Legend
- 2001, Vern L. Bullough (editor), Herbal Contraceptives and Abortifacients, Encyclopedia of Birth Control, page 125
  The seeds of the pomegranate, for example, were widely used to prevent conception in the ancient world and they are still used in India, East Africa, and the Pacific.
- 2005, Payam Nabarz, The Mysteries of Mithras: The Pagan Belief That Shaped the Christian World, page 79,
  Persephone is taken to the underworld by Hades to be his queen. She willingly eats a seed of pomegranate and is forced to spend every winter with her husband in the land of the dead, symbolizing the yearly decay and revival of vegetation. […] In Judaism, the number of seeds in a pomegranate is said to be the exact number of mitzvah, or spiritual duties required of a devout Jew.
- 2006, Wayne Gisslen, Professional Cooking, College Version, page 683,
  The pomegranate is a subtropical fruit about the size of a large apple.
- 2011, David Joachim, Fire It Up: 40 Recipes for Grilling Everything, page 310,
  The grilled leeks are then drizzled with a gorgeous, ruby-red pomegranate vinaigrette.
石榴樹
- Template:RQ:Evelyn Diary
- Template:RQ:Byron Giaour
- 2005, Fahiem E. El-Borai, Larry W. Duncan, 12: Nematode Parasites of Subtropical and Tropical Fruit Tree Crops, M. Luc, Richard A. Sikora, J. Bridge (editors), Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Subtropical and Tropical Agriculture, 2nd Edition, page 481,
  The pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) originates from Persia, and is cultivated in western and central Asia and in the Mediterranean region; it is also grown commercially in California. […] The predominant parasitic nematodes affecting pomegranate are the root knot nematodes, M.^{[Meloidogyne]} incognita, M. acrita and M. javanica (McSorley, 1981).
- 2005, Payam Nabarz, The Mysteries of Mithras: The Pagan Belief That Shaped the Christian World, page 79,
  The pomegranate is the tree of knowledge in some myths. In others, it is linked with the underworld, […].
- 2008, M. N. V. Prasad, Trace Elements as Contaminants and Nutrients, page 225,
  In this experiment, the average Zn concentration of leaf in four pomegranate cultivars was between 12.0 and 19.8mg/kg in the control (Fig. 2a).
石榴色：像石榴果皮的顏色
pomegranate：
(澳大利亞，口語，貶義，棄用) 具有英國血統的人，尤指（最近）移民到澳大利亞的人