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=== Other languages ===
A source of confusion is that ''[[:wikt:citron|citron]]'' in French and English are [[false friend]]s, as the French word refers to the [[lemon]], while the English word is translated ''cédrat''. Indeed, into the 16th century, the English name ''citron'' included the lemon and perhaps the lime as well.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oed.com/ |title=Home : Oxford English Dictionary|publisher=oed.com}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=November 2016|reason=link to home page instead of entry}} Other languages that use variants of ''citron'' to refer to the lemon include Armenian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, German, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Esperanto, Polish and the Scandinavian languages.
In Italian it is known as {{lang|it|cedro}}, the same name used also to indicate the coniferous tree [[cedrus|cedar]]. Similarly, in Latin, citrus, or [[thyine wood]] referred to the wood of a North African cypress, ''[[Tetraclinis articulata]]''.
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