different between bergamot vs chypre

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b????m?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?????m?t/

Etymology 1

French bergamote, from Italian bergamotta, from Ottoman Turkish ?? ??????? (beg armudu, literally “a lord's pear”), denoting a fattish kind of pear. The European word developed the sense of a fruit of a certain citrus cultivar in the late 17th century.

Noun

bergamot (countable and uncountable, plural bergamots)

1. A tree of the orange family (Citrus × limon, syn. Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume.
2. The fruit from the bergamot tree
3. The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
4. A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.

   • The better hand […] gives the nose its bergamot.

5. Either of two plants of the mint family noted for their bergamot-like scent:
   1. Mentha × piperita, nothosubspecies citrata, more commonly known as bergamot mint
   2. Monarda didyma, also known as American bergamot or bee balm.
6. A variety of pear.

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Derived terms

• wild bergamot

Translations

See also

• Earl Grey (tea flavored with bergamot)

Further reading

• bergamot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bergamot in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.

Etymology 2

From Bergamo

Noun

bergamot (usually uncountable, plural bergamots)

1. A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair.

Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?r.?a??m?t/
• Hyphenation: ber?ga?mot
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

bergamot f (plural bergamotten, diminutive bergamotje n)

1. bergamot (pear-shaped citrus fruit)

   Synonym: herenpeer

Derived terms

• bergamotboom
• bergamotolie
• bergamotpeer
• bergamotplant

Romanian

Adjective

bergamot m or n (feminine singular bergamot?, masculine plural bergamo?i, feminine and neuter plural bergamote)

1. Alternative form of pergamut

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• chipre

Etymology

French Chypre (“Cyprus”), the name of a perfume created by François Coty in 1917.

Noun

chypre (plural chypres)

1. Any of a family of fragrances built on a base consisting of bergamot, oakmoss and labdanum.

Translations

Anagrams

• Cypher, cypher