peach

英 [piːtʃ] 美[pitʃ]

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复数: peaches;第三人称单数: peaches;过去式: peached;过去分词: peached;现在分词: peaching;

peach 桃子

来自古法语pesche,来自拉丁语pessica,来自persica拼写变体，缩写自malum Persicum,翻译自希腊语Persikon malon,波斯苹果，词源同Persian.该水果原产于中国，约公元前300年从波斯进入希腊因而称为波斯苹果。

peach: peach: [14] Etymologically, the peach is the ‘Persian’ fruit. The word comes via Old French peche from medieval Latin persica, an alteration of an earlier persicum ‘peach’. This was short for mālum Persicum, literally ‘Persian apple’, reflecting the fact that the peach, a native of China, first became widely known in Europe when it had reached Persia on its westward journey.
peach (n.): c. 1400 (late 12c. as a surname), from Old French pesche "peach, peach tree" (Old North French peske, Modern French pêche), and directly from Medieval Latin pesca, from Late Latin pessica, variant of persica "peach, peach tree," from Latin malum Persicum, literally "Persian apple," translating Greek Persikon malon, from Persis "Persia" (see Persian).

In ancient Greek Persikos could mean "Persian" or "the peach." The tree is native to China, but reached Europe via Persia. By 1663 William Penn observed peaches in cultivation on American plantations. Meaning "attractive woman" is attested from 1754; that of "good person" is from 1904. Peaches and cream in reference to a type of complexion is from 1901. Peach blossom as a color is from 1702. Georgia has been the Peach State since 1939.
peach (v.): "to inform against," 1560s (earlier "to accuse, indict, bring to trial," mid-15c.), a shortening of appeach, an obsolete variant of impeach. Related: Peached; peaching.

1. The following summer the peach tree was laden with fruit.: 第二年夏天桃树就结满了桃子。