parchment: [13] Under several layers of disguise lurks the geographical origin of parchment: the ancient town of Pergamum in western Turkey, whose inhabitants used the skin of sheep for writing on rather than papyrus. In Latin, such skin was known as charta Pergamīna ‘paper from Pergamum’, or simply pergamīna. This was later blended with Parthica pellis ‘Parthian leather’ to produce a Vulgar Latin *particamīnum, which passed into English via Old French parchemin (the ending was changed to -ment on the model of other English words, in the 15th century).
The formal distinction between parchment (made from sheepskin) and vellum (made from calfskin) has never been particularly watertight in English.
parchment (n.)
c. 1300, parchemin (c. 1200 as a surname), from Old French parchemin (11c., Old North French parcamin), from Late Latin pergamena "parchment," noun use of adjective (as in pergamena charta, Pliny), from Late Greek pergamenon "of Pergamon," from Pergamon "Pergamum" (modern Bergama), city in Mysia in Asia Minor where parchment supposedly first was adopted as a substitute for papyrus, 2c. B.C.E. Possibly influenced in Vulgar Latin by Latin parthica (pellis) "Parthian (leather)." Altered in Middle English by confusion with nouns in -ment and by influence of Medieval Latin collateral form pergamentum.
雙語例句
1. Cover with a sheet of non-stick baking parchment.
用一張不粘烘焙仿羊皮紙包上。
來自柯林斯例句
2. For example, animal skins called parchment and vellum were used by the ancient Greeks.
例如, 古希臘人使用過動(dòng)物皮子,如羔皮(parchment)和犢皮(Vellum).
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
3. The parchment came / fell to bits ( ie disintegrated ) in my hands.
羊皮紙?jiān)谖沂种谐闪怂槠?
來自辭典例句
4. Her complexion is like parchment very much the worse for wear.
她的皮膚象一副羊皮,根本不配披在身上.
來自辭典例句
5. The writing on the parchment had faded until it was almost illegible.