2012年2月7日星期二

How does the term "cabbage" make sense given its Latin roots in the word "capitis"?

Ambrose Bierce, in his Devil's Dictionary defined a cabbage as "A vegetable roughly as big and as wise as a man's head."
How does the term "cabbage" make sense given its Latin roots in the word "capitis"?
Cabbages grow in "heads".

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