lapwingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English lapwynge, lapwynke, lappewincke, lapwynche, lhapwynche, from 古期英語 hlēapewince (“lapwing”), from 古期英語 hlēapan (“to leap”) + wincian (“to wink, make a sign”), due to its manner of flight. Cognate with West Frisian ljip (“lapwing”).

The modern form is influenced by folk etymology to resemble English wing.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæpwɪŋ/

名詞

lapwing (複数形 lapwings)

1. Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae, within family Charadriidae.
   • 1986, Steven L. Hilty; Bill Brown, A Guide to the Birds of Colombia, page 149:

     Plovers and lapwings are a large, virtually worldwide family that differs from sandpipers in, among other things, having a shorter, thicker, pigeonlike bill and more robust proportions.

   • 2010, Des Thompson; Ingvar Byrkjedal, Tundra Plovers, page 36:

     The resident tropical plovers have much less pointed wings, and most of the lapwings have fairly rounded wing-tips, a wing shape apparently more adapted to aerial manoeuvrability than to long-distance migration.

   • 2010, Clive Finlayson, Birds of the Strait of Gibraltar, page 244:

     Lapwings are abundant winter visitors to the area but, like the Golden Plovers, vary greatly in number between years.

   1. The northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
2. A silly man.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.

派生語

• African wattled lapwing (Vanellus senegallus)
• Andean lapwing (Vanellus resplendens)
• banded lapwing (Vanellus tricolor)
• black-headed lapwing (Vanellus tectus)
• black-winged lapwing (Vanellus melanopterus)
• blacksmith lapwing (Vanellus armatus)
• brown-chested lapwing (Vanellus superciliosus)
• cayenne lapwing (Vanellus chilensis, syn. Vanellus cayennensis)
• crowned lapwing (Vanellus coronatus)
• gray-headed lapwing (Vanellus cinereus)
• gray lapwing (Pluvialis squatarola, syn. Squatarola cinerea)
• Javan lapwing (Vanellus macropterus)
• long-toed lapwing (Vanellus crassirostris)
• masked lapwing (Vanellus miles)
• northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
• pied lapwing (Vanellus cayanus)
• red-wattled lapwing (Vanellus indicus)
• river lapwing (Vanellus duvaucelii)
• Senegal lapwing (Vanellus senegallus)
• sociable lapwing (Vanellus gregarius)
• southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis, syn. Vanellus cayennensis)
• spot-breasted lapwing (Vanellus melanocephalus)
• spur-winged lapwing (Vanellus spinosus)
• wattled lapwing (Vanellus senegallus)
• white-crowned lapwing (Vanellus albiceps)
• white-headed lapwing (Vanellus albiceps)
• white-tailed lapwing (Vanellus leucurus)
• yellow-wattled lapwing (Vanellus malabaricus)
• See also Lapwing#List of species in taxonomic order on Wikipedia.

参考

• plover

アナグラム

• Pawling, pawling