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noun
1.
a small citrus tree, Citrus aurantium bergamia, having fruit with a rind that yields a fragrant essential oil.
2.
Also called essence of bergamot. the oil or essence itself.
3.
any of various plants of the mint family, as Monarda fistulosa, yielding an oil resembling essence of bergamot.
4.
a variety of pear.
Origin:
1610–20; < French bergamote < Italian bergamotta < Ottoman Turkish; compare Mod Turkish bey armudlu literally, bey's pear (bey bey + armut pear (< Persian ) + -u 3rd singular possessive suffix); Italian form perhaps by association with Bergamo, Bergama, with -otta as alteration to a familiar suffix; the citrus apparently so called from its resemblance to the pear
1610–20; < French bergamote < Italian bergamotta < Ottoman Turkish; compare Mod Turkish bey armudlu literally, bey's pear (bey bey + armut pear (< Persian ) + -u 3rd singular possessive suffix); Italian form perhaps by association with Bergamo, Bergama, with -otta as alteration to a familiar suffix; the citrus apparently so called from its resemblance to the pear
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bergamot
kind of citrus fruit, 1690s, from Fr. bergamote (17c.), from It. bergamotta, said to have been named for Bergamo, town in Italy, though the town is on the opposite end of the peninsula from where the fruit grows. Probably this is a folk-etymologization from Turkish beg-armudi "prince's pear." Bergamo
EXPANDis Roman Bergamum, from a Celtic or Ligurian berg "mountain," cognate with the identical Gmc. word.
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