核心畫面

One way to hold this word: a name that keeps sliding along the table. It starts as a bottle — an Italian brand of called Martini. Then it names the cold, strong drink mixed from that with gin or vodka. Then the narrow, cone-shaped glass becomes so famous that the glass alone carries the name, and almost anything poured into it gets called a martini too.

可以想成一個名字順著吧台一路滑過去。最早它是一瓶義大利苦艾酒的牌子 Martini。接著,用這瓶酒加琴酒或伏特加調出更多收起可以想成一個名字順著吧台一路滑過去。最早它是一瓶義大利苦艾酒的牌子 Martini。接著,用這瓶酒加琴酒或伏特加調出來的那杯冰涼烈酒,也叫 martini。再來,那個倒三角、細長腳的杯子太好認了,名字就黏到杯子上。到最後,只要是裝在那個杯子裡的調酒,很多人都叫它 martini——名字指的已經是杯子的形狀,不再是瓶子裡的東西。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary records that Martini is an Italian name used by the vermouth company Martini & Rossi, and that the cocktail name was coined in America in the 19th or 20th century, with several competing explanations — perhaps the vermouth brand, perhaps the town of Martinez in California, perhaps a bartender of that name.

來源證據指出:Martini 是義大利姓氏,苦艾酒公司 Martini & Rossi 用它當品牌名;而「調酒」這個意思是十九或二十世紀在美國出現的,說法不只一種——可能來自這個苦艾酒品牌,可能來自加州的 Martinez,也可能來自某位姓 Martini 的調酒師。哪一種都還沒有定論。

Wiktionary (packet evidence), entry Martini, etymology 2: source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1259176953

Two branches

那瓶苦艾酒

這是名字最早待的地方。品牌先存在,杯子和調酒的名字才跟著出現,所以它是整條線的起點,而不是從調酒分出來的支線。

noun · C1

A well-known Italian brand of vermouth, which is wine flavoured with herbs. Written with a capital M, and often used as the name of the drink itself, not of a mixed cocktail.

馬丁尼(苦艾酒品牌)

那杯調酒,還有那個杯子

名字從瓶子走到杯子。先是「用那瓶苦艾酒調的酒」,再變成「用那個杯子裝的酒」,重點一路從配方移到外型。

noun · B2

A strong mixed drink made with gin or vodka and a small amount of vermouth, served cold, usually in a wide cone-shaped glass with a thin stem.

馬丁尼