nectarine
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nectar
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English nectarine
From nectar + -ine.
Inflected forms:
form: nectarines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more nectarine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nectarine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A cultivar of the peach with smooth rather than fuzzy skin.
pos: noun
examples: 1670, John Evelyn, Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees to which is annexed Pomona, or, An appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in Relation to Cider, London: Jo. Martyn & Ja. Allestry, “Kalendarium Hortense,” p. 10,
Prune Fruit-trees, and Vines as yet; For now is your Season to bind, plash, naile, and dresse, without danger of Frost: This to be understood of the most tender and delicate Wall-fruit, not finished before; do this before the buds and bearers grow turgid; and yet in the Nectarine and like delicate Mural-fruit, the later your Pruning, the better, whatever has been, and still is, the contrary custom.
1681, Andrew Marvell, “The Garden,” stanza 5, in Miscellaneous Poems, London: Nonesuch, 1923, pp. 49-50,
What wond’rous Life in this I lead!
Ripe Apples drop about my head;
The Luscious Clusters of the Vine
Upon my Mouth do crush their Wine;
The Nectaren, and curious Peach,
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on Melons, as I pass,
Insnar’d with Flow’rs, I fall on Grass.
Guava’s, a Fruit as large as a Pipin, with Seeds and Stones in it, of an uncouth aſtringing Taſt, tho’ never ſo much be ſaid in Commendation of it, at the West-Indies, it is common for Cræolians, (who has taſted both,) to give it a Preference to Peach or Nectarine, no amazing Thing when Men whose Taſts are ſo degenerated, as to prefer a Toad in a Shell, (as Ward calls Turtle,) to Venison […]
1742, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London: S. Richardson, 4th edition, Volume 3, Letter 12, p. 53,
So that reading constantly, and thus using yourself to write, and enjoying besides the Benefit of a good Memory, every thing you heard or read, became your own; and not only so, but was improved by passing thro’ more salubrious Ducts and Vehicles; like some fine Fruit grafted upon a common Free-stock, whose more exuberant Juices serve to bring to quicker and greater Perfection the downy Peach, or the smooth Nectarine with its crimson Blush.
When you see a dish of fruit at dessert, you sometimes set your affections upon one particular peach or nectarine, watch it with some anxiety as it comes round the table, and feel quite a sensible disappointment when it is taken by some one else.
gloss: A nectar-like liquid medicine.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 1628 Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, 3rd edition, Part 3, Section 2, Member 5, Subsection 3, p. 509,
He would have some discreet men to disswade them, after the fury of passion is a little spent, or by absence allaied; for it is intempestive at first, to give counsell, as it is, to comfort parents when their children are in that instant departed; to no purpose to prescribe Narcoticks, Cordialls, Nectarines, potions, […]
gloss: Nectarous; like nectar.
pos: adj
examples: […] to their supper-fruits they fell,
Nectarine fruits which the compliant boughs
Yielded them, side-long as they sat recline
On the soft downy bank damasked with flowers […]
Synonyms: brunion
Derived words: nectaplum
Spanish nectarine
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: nektarien
lang: Arabic
word: دُرَّاق
roman: durrāq
lang: Arabic
word: شهدية
roman: šahdiyya
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܕܘܼܪܩܝܼܢܵܐ
roman: durqīnā
lang: Armenian
word: նեկտարին
roman: nektarin
lang: Asturian
word: nectarina
lang: Bulgarian
word: нектарина
roman: nektarina
lang: Bulgarian
word: гола праскова
roman: gola praskova
lang: Catalan
word: nectarina
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 油桃
roman: yóutáo
lang: Czech
word: nektarinka
lang: Danish
word: nektarin
lang: Dutch
word: nectarine
lang: East Frisian Low German
word: nektaarîin
lang: Esperanto
word: nektarino
lang: Finnish
word: nektariini
lang: French
word: nectarine
lang: Georgian
word: ვაშლატამა
roman: vašlaṭama
lang: German
word: Nektarine
lang: Greek
word: νεκταρίνι
roman: nektaríni
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ῥοδάκινον
roman: rhodákinon
lang: Hebrew
word: נקטרינה
roman: nektarína
lang: Hebrew
word: אֲפַרְשְׁזִיף
roman: afarshezíf
lang: Icelandic
word: nektarína
lang: Ido
word: nektarino
lang: Irish
word: neachtairín
lang: Italian
word: nettarina
lang: Italian
word: pesca noce
lang: Japanese
word: ネクタリン
roman: nekutarin
lang: Japanese
word: 油桃
roman: aburamomo
lang: Japanese
word: 光桃
roman: hikarimomo
lang: Japanese
word: 椿桃
roman: zubaimomo, tsubaimomo, tsubakimomo
lang: Korean
word: 천도 복숭아
roman: cheondo boksung'a
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ھوڵو
roman: hullu
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: teraqî
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: şelîl
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: nektarîn
lang: Macedonian
word: сливопраска
roman: slivopraska
lang: Macedonian
word: нектарина
roman: nektarina
lang: Maltese
word: nuċiprisk
lang: Maltese
word: ċiprisk
lang: Maltese
word: ċuprisk
lang: Maltese
word: anċiprisk
lang: Maltese
word: arċiprisk
lang: Persian
word: شلیل
roman: šalil
lang: Polish
word: nektaryna
lang: Portuguese
word: nectarina
lang: Portuguese
word: pêssego-careca
lang: Romanian
word: nectarină
lang: Russian
word: нектари́н
roman: nektarín
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: peitseag-lom
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: neacadair
lang: Spanish
word: nectarina
lang: Swedish
word: nektarin
lang: Tagalog
word: nektarina
lang: Turkish
word: nektarin
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: دراقی
roman: durrakı
lang: Ukrainian
word: нектари́н
roman: nektarýn
lang: Welsh
word: nectarîn
lang: Welsh
word: neithdaren