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語源

Calque of Latin ātricapillus (“blackcap; black-haired”), itself a calque of Ancient Greek μελαγκόρυφος (melankóruphos). By surface analysis, black +‎ cap.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈblækˌkæp/

名詞

blackcap (plural blackcaps)

1. A small Old World warbler, Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is mainly grey with a black crown. [from 17th c.]
2. (obsolete, UK, US, dialectal) Any of various species of titmouse (of the family Paridae), including the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, syn. Parus atricapillus). [17th–19th c.]
   • 2007, Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Tale of Tales, Penguin, II.4:

     Other times the cat would run off to the hunting grounds, either the swamps or the Astroni, and when the hunters shot down an oriole or a great tit or a blackcap [translating capofuscolo], she collected them and presented them to the king with the same message.

3. (cooking) An apple roasted until black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard. [from 18th c.]
4. (Canada, US) The blackcap raspberry (Rubus leucodermis). [from 19th c.]

   Alternative form: black cap

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