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单词 ballote
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balloten.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French ballote; Latin ballote.
Etymology: < Middle French ballote black horehound (1545; French ballote) or its etymon post-classical Latin ballote ( L. Fuchs De historia stirpium (1542) lvi. 153) < classical Latin ballōtē a plant, perhaps black horehound (Pliny) < Hellenistic Greek βαλλωτή black horehound, of unknown origin. Compare Italian †ballote (end of the 15th cent. in a translation of Pliny).Compare Old English and early Middle English polloten (rare), in the same sense ( < post-classical Latin polloten (first half of the 11th cent. in the source translated in quot. OE), variant of classical Latin ballōtē: see above):OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) clxxvii. 222 Ðeos wyrt ðe man polloten [?a1200 Harl. 6258B polloten] & oþrum naman porrum nigrum nemneþ..ys þyrnihton stelan & swearton & rugum & bradran leafon þonne leac & sweartran, & þa syndon stranges swæces, & hyre miht ys scearp.
Obsolete.
Black or stinking horehound, Ballota nigra.
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1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. B.iiij v Ballote..is named in english stynkyng Horehound or blacke Horehound.
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. ccxxix. 689 Apiastrum, or Melissa, is our common best knowne Balme or Bawme, hauing many square stalkes and blackish leaues like to Ballote, or blacke Hore-hound.
1700 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 22 607 The leaves of this plant..resemble our Ballote or stinking Horehound.
1754 tr. C. Alston Diss. Bot. 74 Ballote, Leontopetalon, and Siliquastrum, are nauseous.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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