orcaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• orc (古風な用法)

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. Doublet of orc.

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoɹkə/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːkə/
• 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

   • 1876, Alexander Schultz, “Account of the Fisheries and Seal-Hunting in the White Sea, the Arctic Ocean, and the Caspian Sea”, in United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part III. Report of the Commissioner for 1873-4 and 1874-5., Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 55:

     In the summer, when the weather is calm and beautiful, large flocks of orcæ can be seen approaching the shallow places near the shore, or between the numerous islands of the White Sea. Several fishermen associate for hunting orcæ, each one furnishing a boat, and a large seine made of cords of the thickness of a finger, the meshes being 10½ inches square.

参考

• ork, orc

アナグラム

• AOCR, Arco, Caro, Cora, RAOC, 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; narwhal”).

発音

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

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.

派生語

• urceus

派生した語

• → Proto-West Germanic: *ork (see there for further descendants)
• Spanish: orca
• Portuguese: orca
• Italian: orca
• Galician: orca
• French: orque
  • → English: orc
• Catalan: orca
• Romanian: orca
• → English: orca
  • → Cebuano: orca
• → Dutch: orka
• → German: Orca
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: орца
  • Latin script: orka
• → Polish: orka
  • → Kashubian: órka

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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