- scallion
[scallion 词源字典]
- scallion: see shallot
[scallion etymology, scallion origin, 英语词源] - scallion (n.)
- late 14c., scalun "kind of onion," also "thing of little value," from Anglo-French escalone, Old North French escalogne, or Old French eschaloigne, all from Vulgar Latin *escalonia, from Latin (cæpa) Ascalonia "(onion) from Ascalon," seaport in southwestern Levant (modern Ashkelon in Israel). Cognate with shallot.