orcaとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin orca (“tun, cask; whale”), see there for more. Although the origin is obscure, the sometimes-cited association with orcus (“underworld”) is folk-etymology.

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹkə/
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː(ɹ).kə/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)kə

名詞

orca (複数形 orcas または orca)

1. A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale.

   Synonyms: grampus, killer whale, blackfish

参考

• ork, orc

アナグラム

• AOCR, Arco, Caro, Cora, Roca, acro, acro-, arco, ocra

Latin

語源

Either borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕρχη (húrkhē, “earthen fish-salting vessel”), or else both borrowed separately from a substrate Mediterranean language. The sense of whale is likely influenced by ὄρυξ (órux, “pickaxe; oryx; narwhale”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ka/, [ˈɔr.ka]

名詞

orca f (genitive orcae); first declension

1. orc, orca (kind of whale)
2. butt, tun (large-bellied vessel)

語形変化

First-declension noun.

参照

• orca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• orca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• orca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• orca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• orca in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• orca in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin