A variety of pears that ripen in August.
Name - Origin
It is a variety of pears (ahládia, apidia) that ripen in August (Great Encyclopedia of Cyprus, vol. 2, entry αουστάπκια,τα, 235).
ETYM. < άουστος [Aoustos = August] + άπιον [apion = the pear] (Yiangoullis 2009, entry αουστόπκια - αουστάπκια,τα, 66)
As George Loukas notes in his Glossary, the name comes from the fact that the particular fruit ripens in August (Kypri 1979 [2002²], entry αουστάπκια,τα, 54).
Additional information and bibliography
Yangoullis K. G. (2009), Thesaurus of the Cypriot dialect. Interpretative, Etymological, Phraseological and Nomenclatural Dictionary of the Medieval and Modern Cypriot Dialect, Theopress Publications, Nicosia.
Kypri Th. D. (ed.) (1979 [2002²]), Materials for the compilation of a historical dictionary of the Cypriot dialect, Part A, Glossary of George Loukas, Publications of the Centre for Scientific Research, XLI, Nicosia.
Pavlides A. (ed.) (1985), Great Encyclopedia of Cyprus, vol. 2, Filokypros, Nicosia.
Kyriaki Panteli, Argyro Xenophontos
Foods
Appídin - pear
Gennadios writes about Cypriot pears at the beginning of the 20th century: "Cyprus, which in the times of Pliny was praised for its large pears, nowadays produces very few and mostly poor quality…
