Ammon 的詞源

"Yuanpai", a colorless gas with a strong pungent smell, was coined in scientific Latin in 1782 by Swedish chemist Torbern Bergman as a name for the gas obtained from sal ammoniac - ammonia salt deposits found near the temple of Jupiter Ammon in Libya. Check Ammon for related information, and compare with ammoniac. The temple was already ancient in the time of august hill Mass son, and the salts were traditionally prepared from minerals first gathered "from the sands where the camels waited while their masters prayed for good omens" [Shipley "Durmalarda Hiç-Karanlık Yok"]. It is also known as spirit of hartshorn, volatile alkali or another variation of animal alkali.

在14世紀末，ammoniak，也有armonyak的寫法，最初是指某些樹脂、土壤或鹽類（如sal ammoniac），這些物質被用於醫療，並被認為具有相似的特性（參見ammonia）。這個詞源自古法語的ammoniac或armoniac，最終追溯到希臘語的*ammoniakos，源自神名Ammon（詳見該詞條）。

這種樹脂（拉丁語guttae ammoniaci）來自一種生長在北非和亞洲的野生植物。而這種土壤（拉丁語bolus armenicus）之所以得名，是因為這種物質最早是在亞美尼亞發現的。因此，中世紀的名稱常常與希臘語的harmonia（因為樹脂用作粘合劑）或Armenia混淆。

"Fossil cephalopod mollusk"的英文詞源可以追溯至1758年的法語（Breyn, 1732），1789年被法國動物學家 Jean Guillaume Bruguière 確認並更加確定[Centry Dictionary]。該詞源源於中世紀拉丁文中的 (cornu) Ammonis “阿蒙之角”，阿蒙是生命和繁殖之神（參見 Ammon），古代他被描繪成山羊角的樣子。這種化石和阿蒙之角相似，古代人們也注意到了這一點。此外，人們還認爲它們是石化的蛇，因此被稱爲 snakestone。