carnation的词源
英文词源
- carnation (n.)
- "Dianthus Caryophyllus," commonly also called "pink," herbaceous perennial flowering plant native to southern Europe and abundant in Normandy, 1530s, of uncertain origin. The early forms are confused; perhaps (on evidence of early spellings) it is a corruption of coronation, from the flower's being used in chaplets or from the toothed crown-like look of the petals.
Or it might be called for its pinkness and derive from Middle French carnation "person's color or complexion" (15c.), which probably is from Italian dialectal carnagione "flesh color," from Late Latin carnationem (nominative carnatio) "fleshiness," from Latin caro "flesh" (see carnage). This carnation had been borrowed separately into English as "color of human flesh" (1530s) and as an adjective meaning "flesh-colored" (1560s; the earliest use of the word in English was to mean "the incarnation of Christ," mid-14c.). OED points out that not all the flowers are this color.
中文词源
来自coronation的拼写异化形式，原指用作花环的花。拼写受词根carn（肉）影响俗化，实际上大多数该类型花呈粉红肉，而非肉色。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：carnation 词源，carnation 含义。
词根词缀： -carn-肉 + -ation名词词尾 → 原始意义为“粉红色,肉色”
