Asparagus grown natively to the western coasts of Europe (from northern Spain to northwest Germany, north Ireland, and Great Britain) are treated as A. officinalis subsp. prostratus(Dumort.) Corb., distinguished by its low-growing, often prostrate stems growing to only 30–70cm (12–28in) high, and shorter cladodes 2–18mm (3⁄32–23⁄32in) long.[7][8] Some authors treat it as a distinct species, A. prostratusDumort.[9][10]
Asparagus shoot before becoming woody
Etymology
The English word asparagus derives from classical Latin but the plant was once known in English as sperage, from the Medieval Latinsparagus.[Note 1] This term itself derives from the Ancient Greek: ἀσπάραγος - aspáragos, a variant of Ancient Greek: ἀσφάραγος - aspháragos. The Greek terms are of uncertain provenance; the former form admits the possibility of a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to jerk, scatter," directly or via a Persian descendant meaning "twig, branch"; but the Ancient Greek word itself, meaning "gully, chasm," seems to be of Pre-Greek origin instead.
Asparagus was corrupted by folk etymology in some places to "sparrow grass";[11] indeed, John Walker wrote in 1791 that "Sparrowgrass is so general that asparagus has an air of stiffness and pedantry".[12] The name 'sparrow grass' was still in common use in rural East Anglia, England well into the twentieth century.[13]
↑ラテン語velocius quam asparagi conquantur (またはcelerius quam asparagi cocuntur )、スエトニウスによってアウグストゥスのものとされた( The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Book 2 (Augustus), para. 87)。ラテン語フレーズのリスト (V) を参照してください。
参考文献
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↑ジュール・グフェ。エティエンヌ・アントワーヌ。ウジェーヌ・ロンジャ(2016年8月5日)。」「Chapitre XVI Légumes 71.Légumes」" . Le Livre de Cooking: Comprenant la Cooking de ménage et la grande Cooking、1893 (フランス語)。BnF コレクション電子ブック。ISBN978-2-346-01376-02020年4月28日に取得。(アスパラガスはフランス語でAspergeです。)
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