patanaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Sanskrit पतन (patana). The spellings patina and patena are probably by conflation.

発音

• IPA: /ˈpætənə/

名詞

patana (plural patanas)

1. A type of open, hilly grassland, especially in Sri Lanka, often formed after the clearing of jungle.
   • 1990, P. J. Skerman, F. Riveros, Tropical Grasses, →ISBN, page 19:

     A considerable area of the jungle vegetation (rain forest) of the montane zone has been destroyed and is now either tea plantation or native patana grassland.

Further reading

• “patena”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “patana, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.