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scallion

Pronunciation: [ˈskæ.lɪ.ən]

The English word “scallion” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A spring onion, Allium fistulosum.
  2. Any of various similar members of the genus Allium.
  3. Any onion that lacks a fully developed bulb.
  4. A leek.

Etymology

From Middle English scaloun (“shallot”), from Anglo-Norman scalun (variant of Old French eschaloigne), from a Proto-Romance derivation of Vulgar Latin *escalonia, from Latin Ascalonius (in caepa (“onion”) Ascalonius, "shallot"), from Ascalo (“Ascalon”), from Ancient Greek Ἀσκάλων (Askálōn, “Ascalon, an ancient port city in the Levant”), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew אַשְׁקְלוֹן (ʾašqəlôn).

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