這個拼法是2個不同的字· 2 words spelled “plantain”
- 1plantain · cooking banana大蕉（料理用的香蕉）Picture something at the market that looks like a very large banana, but firmer, thicker-skinned, and hard to…
- 2plantain · flat-leaved weed車前草Picture the low weed at the edge of a path, the one that survives being walked on.
plantain · cooking banana
nounPicture something at the market that looks like a very large banana, but firmer, thicker-skinned, and hard to open with your hands. Raw it is starchy rather than sweet, so it is not a fruit you eat standing up. It goes to the stove instead: sliced and fried, boiled, roasted, mashed. In the kitchen its place is closer to a potato than to a banana, and that is the whole picture of this word.
From the word’s history
From Spanish plátano, from Latin platanus, from Ancient Greek platanos, which was the name of a quite different tree. The name travelled to the Americas and settled on this cooking banana, so the root says nothing about the fruit itself.
這條線來自西班牙文 plátano，再往前是拉丁文 platanus、希臘文 platanos，本來是另一種樹的名字。這個名字被帶到美洲之後，才落到這種要煮來吃的香蕉身上。所以字根本身跟這種果實沒有關係，是名字搬了家。
Wiktionary, "plantain"
plantain · flat-leaved weed
nounPicture the low weed at the edge of a path, the one that survives being walked on. Its leaves lie flat in a ring against the ground, wide and , and a thin green spike rises from the middle with tiny flowers on it. You find it exactly where people walk, because hard trodden ground is where it does best. This word shares its spelling with the cooking banana and nothing else.
From the word’s history
From Latin plantago, from planta, the sole of the foot. The usual explanation is the shape of the leaves: broad and flat against the ground, like a footprint.
這條線來自拉丁文 plantāgō，而 plantāgō 來自 planta，意思是「腳掌」。一般的解釋是葉子的形狀：又寬又平地貼在地上，像一個腳印。剛好它也真的長在人踩過的地方。
Wiktionary, "plantain"