核心畫面

One way to hold this word: a place first, and then a label. Bordeaux is a port city and the growing country around it in south-west France. English took the place name and stuck it on things that come out of that place — the wine, then the deep red of that wine, then a plant spray whose recipe carries the same regional name. Every later meaning is the place name travelling with something.

可以想成:先有一個地方,然後這個地名被貼到從那裡出來的東西上。Bordeaux 本來是法國西南部的港口城市,以及城市更多收起可以想成:先有一個地方,然後這個地名被貼到從那裡出來的東西上。Bordeaux 本來是法國西南部的港口城市,以及城市周圍那一整片產區。英文把這個地名原封不動借過來,再讓它跟著東西跑:那裡的酒叫 Bordeaux,那種酒的深紅色也叫 Bordeaux,連一種農用噴劑的名字裡都帶著它。所以每一個後來的意思,都是同一個地名被別在某樣東西身上。

From the word’s history

Borrowed from French Bordeaux (Middle French Bordeaulx), from Occitan Bordeu, from Old Occitan Bordel, from Latin Burdigala, from a Proto-Celtic root. It was a place name before it was anything else.

英文的 Bordeaux 借自法文 Bordeaux(中古法文 Bordeaulx),再往前是奧克語 Bordèu、古奧克語 Bordel,最早是拉丁文 Burdigala,源頭為原始凱爾特語。它從頭到尾先是地名,其他用法都後來才長出來。

Wiktionary etymology supplied in this packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1201409823:18502)

Two branches

地方本身

這一支就是核心本身:法國西南部的港口城市和它周圍的地區。

noun · C1

A port city in the south-west of France, and the area around it. It is the main city of the Gironde department and of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, and it is known for its food and for the wine made there.

波爾多(法國西南部城市與地區)

那裡出產的酒,以及酒的顏色

地名被貼到那裡出產的酒上,之後又從酒延伸到那種酒的顏色。

noun · C1

A wine that comes from the Bordeaux area in the south-west of France. The name is the name of the place, so it tells you where the wine was made, not what it tastes like.

波爾多葡萄酒