{"id":19954,"date":"2020-10-10T14:14:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T14:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=19954"},"modified":"2020-10-10T14:14:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T14:14:57","slug":"peaches-grapes-and-quinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=19954","title":{"rendered":"Peaches, grapes and quinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting word that came up in my Spanish lessons this morning was <strong>durazno<\/strong> [du\u02c8\u027easno], which is a peach in Latin American. In Spain a peach is a <strong>melocot\u00f3n<\/strong> [meloko\u02c8ton].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/skyseeker\/20205455\/in\/photolist-PbmWn-eXKTXW-ge8b3-JcUEBo-6RYtSE-JcUEcf-2TX4v-JcUE63-2xR8pq-p5uVYy-p2mwJf-6VQVJk-xYchct-Lbm3Gx-2MynV-eSmFp1-eS8ZxZ-6Stz6u-5nPQQQ-ogTSb-PaQRS-6UhK7E-eprJj-wbdJzd-otq1pr-okYanS-85uEa6-Jnkuza-2VoBaD-o6vwe1-oqadTr-sr9S74-9rcizK-a8fv7q-6yhncU-nh2ebD-p3SdUr-FtDrJj-8kxNGL-a2iPLV-5MLFjQ-dCqTJf-huKWf4-fCqTA3-ak7zVx-cNTXgs-fCqTxN-6KceUu-oESa7y-8qjKgK\" title=\"Yummy peach!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/16\/20205455_e11d53b4c5_z.jpg\" alt=\"Yummy peach!\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Durazno<\/strong> comes from the Latin <em>d\u016bracinus<\/em>, which means &#8216;hard-berried&#8217;, from <em>d\u016brus<\/em> (hard) <em>acinus<\/em> (berry, grape).  It originally referred to grapes used for eating rather than wine-making. Later is was also used for other fruits with a central stone, such as peaches [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/durazno\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words from the same root include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arabic: <strong>\u062f\u064f\u0631\u064e\u0651\u0627\u0642\u200e\u200e<\/strong> (durr\u0101q) &#8211; peach<\/li>\n<li>French: <strong>duracine<\/strong> &#8211; a variety of peach with firm flesh<\/li>\n<li>Greek: <strong>\u03c1\u03bf\u03b4\u03ac\u03ba\u03b9\u03bd\u03bf<\/strong> (rod\u00e1kino) &#8211; peach<\/li>\n<li>Italian: <strong>duracina<\/strong> &#8211; clingstone (peach), bigaroon (a type of cherry)<\/li>\n<li>Quechua: <strong>turasnu<\/strong> &#8211; peach<\/li>\n<li>San Juan Colorado Mixtec: <strong>durastun<\/strong> &#8211; peach<\/li>\n<li>Tetelcingo Nahuatl: <strong>tr\u00f6sno<\/strong> &#8211; peach<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A <strong>clingstone<\/strong> is a type of fruit with a stone that clings to the flesh, such as a peach [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/clingstone\">source<\/a>]. The antonym is <strong>freestone<\/strong>, a type of fruit with a stone that doesn\u2019t cling to the flesh (much).<\/p>\n<p>The Quechua, Mixtec and Nahuatl words were borrowed from Spanish. The Arabic word came from the Ancient Greek <em>\u03b4\u03c9\u03c1\u03ac\u03ba\u03b9\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd<\/em> (d\u014dr\u00e1kinon).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Melocot\u00f3n<\/strong> comes from the Latin <em>m\u0101lum cot\u014dnium<\/em> (quince &#8211;  \u201capple of Cydonia\u201d), from <em>m\u0101lum<\/em> (apple) and <em>cot\u014dnium<\/em> (quince tree)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/malum_cotonium#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English word quince comes from the same root via the Old French <em>cooing<\/em> (quince), and the Late Latin <em>cot\u014dneum<\/em> (quince) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/malum_cotonium#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Cydonia or Kydonia (\u039a\u03c5\u03b4\u03c9\u03bd\u03af\u03b1) was a city in northwest Crete in the site of modern Chania (\u03a7\u03b1\u03bd\u03b9\u03ac) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kydonia\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>peach<\/strong> comes from the Middle English <em>peche<\/em> (peach), borrowed from the Old French <em>pesche<\/em> (peach), from the Vulgar Latin <em>*pessica<\/em> (peach) from the Late Latin <em>persica<\/em> (peach), from the Classical Latin <em>m\u0101lum persicum<\/em> (peach, \u201cPersian apple\u201d), from the Ancient Greek <em>\u03bc\u1fb6\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03c3\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03bd<\/em> (m\u00e2lon persik\u00f3n &#8211; peach, \u201cPersian apple\u201d) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/peach#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The scientific name for peach is  <em>Prunus persica<\/em> (&#8220;Persian prune&#8221;), and comes from the old belief that peaches were native to Persian, and because peaches are related to plums. They are in fact native to the north west of China [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peach\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting word that came up in my Spanish lessons this morning was durazno [du\u02c8\u027easno], which is a peach in Latin American. In Spain a peach is a melocot\u00f3n [meloko\u02c8ton]. Durazno comes from the Latin d\u016bracinus, which means &#8216;hard-berried&#8217;, from d\u016brus (hard) acinus (berry, grape). It originally referred to grapes used for eating rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,104,107,111,118,128,10,15,193,192,34,191,64,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-greek","category-italian","category-language","category-latin","category-mixtec","category-nahuatl","category-old-french","category-quechua","category-spanish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19954"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19966,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19954\/revisions\/19966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}