Cantaloupe

[William A Hupy]

I don’t know if fruit names are considered good words, but after watching a segment on You Tube, I just had to submit this word. My rudimentary Latin confirms that sing and wolf are root words for this fruit, which is so named, allegedly, because the hill town of Cantaloupe in Italy at one time, legend tells us, was inhabitanted by a singing wolf.

[David Myer]

Does this mean that cantaloupes come from Cantaloupe? If so then my pronunciation of the fruit has been wrong for 70-odd years.