喜樂美語
  1. 1羅勒（西餐甜羅勒；台灣廚房更常見的九層塔是 Thai basil，味道偏八角，不是同一種葉）

    Basil is a soft green herb with a strong smell and a strong taste, used in cooking. The kind most English recipes mean is sweet basil: bright leaves, a little sweet, a little peppery, famous in Italian food — torn over tomatoes, stirred into pasta, crushed into . You usually add it near the end, because a long time on the heat knocks the smell out. In English, basil by itself almost always means this Western cooking herb. There is also Thai basil, which tastes more like ; that is a close cousin, not exactly the same leaf. The man’s name Basil is the same spelling, but that is a person, not the plant.

From the word’s history

Via French and Medieval Latin basilicum from Greek basilikón 'royal', from basileús 'king'.

經法文、拉丁文，源自希臘文 basilikón「王家的」。

Wiktionary

組成The name came through French and Latin from Ancient Greek basilikón, royal, from basileús, king. People treated it as the royal herb.

同家族的字

  • basilicaboth go back to Greek for royal / king — the herb was the royal plant, the building was a royal hall

原始詞典資料10 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Basilname/ˈbæz.əl/

  • 1

    A male given name from Ancient Greek, in quiet but steady use in the UK.

    • "Nonsense. I'm sure he can't have grey hair with such a pretty name as that. Basil Brooke, Basil Brooke," and May chanted the name over and over in her girlish, musical voice. "It sounds like all sorts of pleasant pictures. - -

basilnoun詞源 1/ˈbæz.əl/

  • 1

    A plant (Ocimum basilicum).

  • 2

    The leaves of this plant used as a herb.

  • 3

    Any other species in the genus Ocimum.

basilnoun詞源 2/ˈbæz.əl/

  • 1

    The angle to which a joiner's tool is ground away.

    • [H]old the edge of your Iron upvvards in your left hand and your VVhet-ſtone in your right, and having firſt ſpit upon your Stone to vvet it, apply it to the Baſil of your Iron, in ſuch a Poſition that it may bear upon the vvhole bredth of the Baſil; and ſo vvorking the Stone over the Baſil, you vvill quickly vvear the courſer grating of the Grind ſtone off the edge on that ſide: […]

basilverb詞源 2/ˈbæz.əl/

  • 1

    To grind the edge of a tool to an acute angle.

    • These usually large chisels may have the edge basiled on either the inside or the outside of the 90° angle of the blade.

basilnoun詞源 3/ˈbæz.əl/

  • 1

    The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.

    • Each sleeper has for covering a large basil (dressed sheep-skin), such as cobblers use for aprons. As they lie in long rows, in the most profound repose, with these dark brown wrappers about them, they present the uniform look and arrangement of a long line of mummies.

basilnoun詞源 4/ˈbæz.əl/

  • 1

    obsoleteA type of cannon.

  • 2

    archaichistoricalA fetter fastened round the ankle of a prisoner.

    • When I once more feel that sharp smarting around the scabby sores that cluster like so many oysters on my ankles beneath my chained iron basils, I know that the tide has turned.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。