Hold one small round fruit in your hand: soft skin with a light fuzz, warm orange-yellow all the way round, and one big flat seed hiding in the middle. Everything the word does comes out of that one object. Step back from the fruit and you get the tree it hung on. Look only at the colour of the skin and you get a name for that colour, ready to be used for walls, scarves and evening skies.
From the word’s history
The packet's Wiktionary etymology traces the word from Late Latin praecocia, the peaches that ripen early, through Byzantine Greek and Arabic al-barquq into English, where it was once spelt abrecock and apricock.
來源記錄的路線很長：晚期拉丁文 praecocia（早熟的那種桃子）→ 拜占庭希臘文 → 阿拉伯文 al-barqūq → 加泰隆尼亞方言 → 英文，早期還寫成 abrecock、apricock。最前面那一段跟核心畫面扣得很緊：這顆果子當初被命名，看中的就是「比桃子早熟」這件事。
Wiktionary entry for apricot, supplied in this batch's evidence packet (etymology text truncated to 500 chars there).
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