gammon

英 ['g?m?n] 美['ɡ?m?n]

暢通詞匯

gammon 熏豬后腿

來自拉丁語gamba, 腿，詞源同gambit, gambol.來自PIE*kamp, 彎，轉(zhuǎn)，詞源同camp, cant.

gammon: gammon: Gammon ‘bacon’ [15] is not related to the gammon [18] of backgammon. It comes from Old Northern French gambon (source also of modern French jambon ‘ham’), which was a derivative of gambe ‘leg’ – hence etymologically ‘leg meat’. This seems to go back ultimately to Greek kampé ‘bend’, which was used particularly as an anatomical term for joints of the body.

Latin took it over as a veterinary expression, gamba, denoting a ‘horse’s hoof’, and it passed in due course into Italian as gamba (whence English gambit, gambol, jamb [14], and the gamba of viola da gamba [18], played between the legs) and into French as jambe, both meaning ‘leg’. The gammon of backgammon comes from Middle English gamen, the ancestor of modern English game (see also BACKGAMMON).
=> gambit, gambol, jamb
gammon (n.): "ham or haunch of a swine," especially when smoked and cured, early 15c., gambon, from Old North French gambon "ham" (Old French jambon, 13c.), from gambe (Old French jambe) "leg," from Late Latin gamba "leg of an animal" (see gambol (n.)).

1. Workers undergo training at one of the Gammon Workers Registration Centres.: 建筑工人于金門工人注冊中心內(nèi)參與培訓(xùn)課程.

2. Gammon team takes part in the annual Sedan Chair Race.: 金門隊(duì)每年均參與慈善抬轎大賽.