greengage

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By surface analysis, green + gage. See alternative etymology below, as this is incorrect: the etymology for gage is a back-formation from greengage. alternative etymology The legend goes that Sir William Gage, 2nd Baronet of Hengrave, (c. 1656–1727), had a shipment of plums from France, in which the labels of the reine-claude got lost, by which reason his gardener called it after his master. Horticulturist Peter Collinson reports in his notes edited by L. W. Dillwyn in 1843, page 60: I was on a visit to Sir William Gage, at Hengrave, near Bury; he was then near 70; he told me that he first brought over, from France, the Grosse reine Claude, and introduced it into England, and in compliment to him the Plum was called the Green Gage; this was about the year 1725. Contrary to the common story however here the French name is known to the baronet, and it could consequentially completely be a running joke, in that he exploited a coincidental likeness of his name to a plant name to become part of history. An older term denoting the very same plum cultivar, which ultimately derives from the Near East, via the Sublime Porte under Kanuni Süleyman, is found in Persian گوجه سبز (gowje sabz)

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: جَانَرِك (jānarik) — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Arabic: كوجة (kōja) — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Bulgarian: ренглота (renglota) — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Chinese Mandarin: 青梅 (qīngméi) — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Czech: ryngle — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Finnish: viherluumu — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• French: reine-claude — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Georgian: რენკლოდი (renḳlodi) — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• German: Reneklode — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Greek: πράσινο δαμάσκηνο (prásino damáskino) — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Hungarian: ringló — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Irish: glasphluma — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Italian: verdacchio — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Latvian: renklode — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Luxembourgish: Réngglott — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Persian: گوجه سبز (gowje sabz) — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Polish: renkloda — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Russian: ренкло́д (renklód) — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Spanish: claudia — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Turkish: can eriği — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Welsh: eirin gwyrdd(ion) — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
• Welsh: eirin gwynion — a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin