love apple
See also: loveapple
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque of Italian pomo d'oro (“tomato”, literally “golden apple”), confusing d’oro (“golden”) with d’amore (“love”), or from French pomme d'amour,[1][2] equivalent to love + apple.
Noun
[edit]love apple (plural love apples)
- (now uncommon) Synonym of tomato. [from 1785]
- 2002, R. Sterling et al., World Food: Greece, page 47:
- Perhaps the most common vegetable in Greece is the tomato... How far the little love apple has come.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “love apple”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “love-apple”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
[edit]- “love apple”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.