Bergamot (pear)
Bergamot describes a group of round, mostly very old pear varieties . The external appearance of these fruits is often more reminiscent of apples than of pears .
The Italian word bergamotta referred to a variety of pear that was imported from Turkey. The name is said to go back to the Ottoman-Turkish beg armudı (today's Turkish : bey armudu ), which means “lord's pear” or “prince's pear”, although the Italian name could also be influenced by the city name Bergama for Pergamon . The name of the fruit is converted to baca mortu in many Italian dialects , with the verb bacare standing for calm down and mortu for the dead. In addition to the group of bergamot and pear varieties, there is also a group of citrus fruits of the same name .
Representatives of bergamot pears include the German National bergamot , the Early Swiss bergamot , the full supporting bergamot , the Red bergamot , the bergamot of Parthenay , the Darmstadt bergamot , Donauer bergamot , the Prince Zeller winter bergamot , Geerards bergamot , the Gray round Winter bergamot , the Large Summer bergamot , Mayer's red bergamot , the Easter bergamot , Sagerets bergamot , the long summer bergamot and the wine bergamot pear .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7 (reprint from 1996).
- ↑ Heinrich Marzell : Dictionary of German plant names. Volume 1: Abelia - Cytisus. S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1943.