bergamote
French
Etymology
From Italian bergamotta, deemed a corruption of Ottoman Turkish بك آرمودی (beg armudu, literally “a lord's pear”), denoting originally a fattish kind of pear, whereafter the European word developed the sense of a fruit of a certain citrus cultivar in the late 17th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɛʁ.ɡa.mɔt/
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Noun
bergamote f (plural bergamotes)
- bergamot, a pear cultivar
- bergamot, a citrus cultivar
- the scent of such a citrus used in perfumery
- a bonbon treated with such a perfume
Descendants
- → Arabic: بَرْغَمُوت (barḡamūt)
- → English: bergamot
- → Ottoman Turkish: برغموت (bergamot), برعموت (bergamot)
- Turkish: bergamot
Further reading
- Meyer, Gustav (1892), “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 28
- “bergamote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.