英语
替代写法
词源
来自中古法语 perroquet,可能是人名Pierre的指小词;一些异体形或许经由意大利语 parrocchetto、西班牙语 periquito。
发音
名词
parakeet(复数 parakeets)
- 长尾鹦鹉[自十六世纪]
- 1603,Michel de Montaigne,章号8,出自John Florio译,, The Essayes […],book II,London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- we had loved them for our pastimes, as we do apes, monkies, or perokitoes, and not as man.
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
- 2009, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian, 12 Oct 2009:
- According to one legend, the parakeets escaped from the set of The African Queen, John Huston's 1951 film made at Shepperton studios.
使用说明
作为宠物养的在大英国协会员中则称为“budgie”或“budgerigar”。