apricot
pronunciation
How to pronounce apricot in British English:
UK [ˈeɪprɪkɒt]
How to pronounce apricot in American English:
US [ˈeɪprɪkɑːt]
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- Noun:
- Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach
- downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach
- a shade of pink tinged with yellow
Word Origin
- apricot
- apricot: [16] The word apricot reached English by a peculiarly circuitous route from Latin. The original term used by the Romans for the apricot, a fruit which came ultimately from China, was prūnum Arminiacum or mālum Arminiacum ‘Armenian plum or apple’ (Armenia was an early source of choice apricots). But a new term gradually replaced these: mālum praecocum ‘early-ripening apple’ (praecocus was a variant of praecox, from which English gets precocious). Praecocum was borrowed by a succession of languages, making its way via Byzantine Greek beríkokkon and Arabic al birqūq ‘the apricot’ to Spanish albaricoque and Portuguese albricoque.This was the source of the English word, but its earliest form, abrecock, shows that it had already acquired the initial abrof French abricot, and the final -t followed almost immediately. Spellings with p instead of b are also found in the 16th century.=> precocious
- apricot (n.)
- 1550s, abrecock, from Catalan abercoc, related to Portuguese albricoque, from Arabic al-birquq, through Byzantine Greek berikokkia from Latin (malum) praecoquum "early-ripening (fruit)" (see precocious). Form assimilated to French abricot. Latin praecoquis early-ripe, can probably be attributed to the fact that the fruit was considered a variety of peach that ripened sooner than other peaches .... [Barnhart] The older Latin name for it was prunum Armeniacum or malum Armeniacum, in reference to supposed origin in Armenia. As a color name, first attested 1906.
Example
- 1. It is a spirit native to hungary and comes in a variety of flavours including apricot ( barack ) and cherry ( cseresznye ) .
- 2. Lycopene can also be found in some other fruits , such as watermelon , pink grapefruit , pink guava , papaya , and apricot .
- 3. Or puree a few canned apricot halves with some orange juice .
- 4. The phone number is 5558484 and she lives at 48 apricot street .
- 5. The team analysed tomato , apple , plum , peach , pear , grape and apricot waste such as the skin , revealing them all to be good sources of antioxidants .