daffodil的词源
英文词源
- daffodil
- daffodil: [16] Originally, this word was affodil, and referred to a plant of the lily family, the asphodel; it came from medieval Latin affodillus, and the reason for the change from asph- (or asf-, as it often was in medieval texts) to aff- is probably that the s in medieval manuscripts looked very like an f. The first evidence of its use to refer to a ‘daffodil’, rather than an ‘asphodel’, comes in the middle of the 16th century. It is not entirely clear where the initial d came from, but the likeliest explanation is that daffodil represents Dutch de affodil ‘the daffodil’ (the Dutch were then as now leading exponents of bulb cultivation).
- daffodil (n.)
- 1540s, variant of Middle English affodill "asphodel" (c. 1400), from Medieval Latin affodillus, from Latin asphodelus, from Greek asphodelos, which is of unknown origin. The initial d- is perhaps from merging of the article in Dutch de affodil, the Netherlands being a source for bulbs. First reference to the flower we know by this name (Narcissus pseudo-Narcissus) is from 1590s.
中文词源
来自拉丁语asphodelus, 黄水仙。字母d误以为是冠词de而加在首字母前。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：daffodil 词源，daffodil 含义。
在古希腊神话中，有一块英雄及好人死后居住的乐土叫Elysium。那里没有风雪，没有严寒，常年和风习习，遍地开着daffodil这种大朵的黄水仙花。自20世纪早期起daffodil就成为英国威尔士的民族之花。在威尔士的民族节日圣大卫节(St David's Day)那天，许多威尔士人都会在衣服上佩戴daffodil。除了玫瑰之外，daffodil也是英国抒情诗中特受喜爱的花之一，赫里克(Robert Herrick,1591-1674)和华兹华斯(William Wordsworth,1770-1850)等著名诗人都借daffodil抒发情怀。daffodil一词源于希腊语,原先作asphodel，到15世纪时被讹传为affodil.据牛津字典，首字母d是被半戏谑地加上去的，就像Ed 和Ted同是Edward的昵称，而Ted的首字母T是以后加上去的。；；另一种说法是，d可能来自荷兰语的定冠词de,荷兰语de affodil被英国人误作一个词了。荷兰人昔日曾是，今天仍是栽培百合，郁金香，水仙等鳞茎植物(bulb)的能手。
