quince
pronunciation
How to pronounce quince in British English:
UK [kwɪns]
How to pronounce quince in American English:
US [kwɪns]
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- Noun:
- small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated
- aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves
Word Origin
- quince
- quince: [14] Etymologically, the quince is the ‘fruit from Khaniá’, a port on the northwest coast of Crete from which quinces were exported. In ancient times Khaniá was known as Cydonia (in Greek Kudónia), so the Greeks called the fruit mélon Kudónion ‘Cydonian apple’. Latin took the term over as cydōneum, later cotōneum, which passed into English via Old French cooin. The original English form of the word was quoyn, later quyn, but already by the early 14th century its plural quyns was coming to be regarded as a singular – whence modern English quince.
- quince (n.)
- early 14c., plural of quoyn, from Old French cooin (Modern French coing), from Vulgar Latin codoneum, from Latin cotoneum malum "quince fruit," probably a variant of cydonium malum, from Greek kydonion malon "apple of Kydonia" (modern Khania), ancient seaport city in Crete. The plant is native to Persia, Anatolia, and Greece; the Greeks imported grafts for their native plants from a superior strain in Crete, hence the name. Kodu- also was the Lydian name for the fruit. Italian cotogno, German Quitte, etc. all are ultimately from the Greek word.
Example
- 1. Celeste montoya quince
- 2. 西 莱斯特 蒙托亚 木瓜
- 3. Chinese flowering quince can treat oedema , beriberi , and ameliorable joint .
- 4. Quince is being tested to see if it can operate at fukushima .
- 5. Varietal flavours abound with strong plum , quince and juicy fleshy fruit .