bergamote

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French

Etymology

Borrowed 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)

  1. bergamot, a pear cultivar
  2. bergamot, a citrus cultivar
  3. the scent of such a citrus used in perfumery
  4. a bonbon treated with such a perfume

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Further reading

  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “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 , 2012.
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