• n. 杏，杏子；[園藝] 杏樹；杏黃色
• adj. 杏黃色的

來自拉丁短語malum precoquum, 早熟的水果。-cot, cook的過去分詞，表示熟。

該詞的字面意思是：早熟的水果。

詞根詞綴：a- "the" (阿拉伯語定冠詞“al”的變體，相當于英語中的定冠詞“the”) + pri- "before" (前綴“pre-”的元音變體) + cot- "ripe" (詞根“coc-”的變體)。所以，其字面意思就是：the early-ripening (fruit)，即：早熟的水果。

其名稱源于最初“杏”被認為是另外一種桃子，只是它比其它種類的桃子成熟得早。于是就有了這個怪異的名稱，而“杏”這種水果本身最初是由中國傳到西方的。

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.

1. The illustration shows a cluster of five roses coloured apricot orange.

插圖上是一簇杏橙色的玫瑰，一共5朵。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The bridesmaids wore apricot and white organza.

伴娘身著杏黃色和白色相間的透明硬紗禮服。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The heavy curtains were a warm apricot.

這些厚重的窗簾是溫暖的杏黃色。

來自柯林斯例句

4. With so much spring in the garden , how can it be contained ? A spray of red apricot blossom has already reached over the wall.

滿園春色關不住, 一枝紅杏出墻來.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

5. Economic crops include flax, canola, yellow, apricot, apple and so on.

經濟作物有胡麻 、 油菜 、 黃花 、 杏 、 蘋果等.

來自互聯網