02-02-2016, 12:58 AM
"My suggestion for 44r would be tarragon. I believe the French for the name translates to "little dragon" which would explain why he's in the illustration."
You mean 25v I take it, the one with the dragon. I do like that interpretation!
Just to add though, fwiw:
The connection of tarragon with dragons does not come from french and the french "estragon" does not translate to "little dragon". It does refer to dragons though, but no mention of their size!
Tarragon/Estragon's etymology goes like this (please pardon my quick & messy presentation):
Borrowed from medieval latin tarcon, arabic altarcon (late xiith C., Gérard de Cremone), lat. bot. tarchon (1538, lat. translation of Siméon Seth De Cibariis ds NED tarragon), medieval greek. τ α ρ χ ο ́ ν (xies., Siméon Seth in Roll., loc. cit), from arabic tarh̬ūn (late ixth c., Razi; early xies., Avicenne in Devic) itself probably from classical greek δ ρ α κ ο ́ ν τ ι ο ν.
In French:
1539 targon (L. Duchesne, In Ruellium de stirpibus epitome ..., Paris, p. [16] : Tarco, from targon); 1564 estargon (Ch. Estienne, L'Agriculture et maison rustique, Paris, 1. II, chap. 25, p. 43a) : Targon, which the gardeners call estargon); 1601 estragon.
You mean 25v I take it, the one with the dragon. I do like that interpretation!
Just to add though, fwiw:
The connection of tarragon with dragons does not come from french and the french "estragon" does not translate to "little dragon". It does refer to dragons though, but no mention of their size!
Tarragon/Estragon's etymology goes like this (please pardon my quick & messy presentation):
Borrowed from medieval latin tarcon, arabic altarcon (late xiith C., Gérard de Cremone), lat. bot. tarchon (1538, lat. translation of Siméon Seth De Cibariis ds NED tarragon), medieval greek. τ α ρ χ ο ́ ν (xies., Siméon Seth in Roll., loc. cit), from arabic tarh̬ūn (late ixth c., Razi; early xies., Avicenne in Devic) itself probably from classical greek δ ρ α κ ο ́ ν τ ι ο ν.
In French:
1539 targon (L. Duchesne, In Ruellium de stirpibus epitome ..., Paris, p. [16] : Tarco, from targon); 1564 estargon (Ch. Estienne, L'Agriculture et maison rustique, Paris, 1. II, chap. 25, p. 43a) : Targon, which the gardeners call estargon); 1601 estragon.
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