avocado

英美[,?v?'kɑdo]

低頻詞暢通詞匯水果

復數:?avocados;

avocado 鱷梨

來自南美土著語ahuakatl, 梨，從西班牙傳入英國，訛誤成alligator, 鱷魚，以訛傳訛，最后翻譯成了鱷梨。拼寫愛advocate的影響。

avocado: avocado: [17] Anyone tucking into an avocado could well be taken aback to learn that in the South American Indian language from which the word originally came, it meant literally ‘testicle’. The Nahuatl Indians named the fruit ahuacatl ‘testicle’ on account of its shape. The Spanish conquistadors took the word over as aguacate, but before long this became altered by folk etymology (the substitution of familiar for unfamiliar forms) to avocado (literally ‘advocate’ in Spanish).

When English borrowed the word, folk etymology took a hand yet again, for in the late 17th century it became known as the alligator pear, a name which survived into the 20th century.
avocado (n.): 1763, from Spanish avocado, altered (by folk etymology influence of earlier Spanish avocado "lawyer," from same Latin source as advocate (n.)) from earlier aguacate, from Nahuatl (Aztecan) ahuakatl "avocado" (with a secondary meaning "testicle" probably based on resemblance), from proto-Nahuan *pawa "avocado." As a color-name, first attested 1945. The English corruption alligator (pear) is 1763, from Mexican Spanish alvacata, alligato.

4. The infestation of avocado root rot disease is not visually detectable.: 鱷梨樹根腐病的感染用視覺是無法探測出來的.

5. The avocado shows a typical loss of green color and a reduction in vegetative growth.: 鱷梨呈現典型的葉色褪綠及營養生長減弱.