potatoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• potatoe (廃れた用法)
• p'tater, tater (dialectal または くだけた用法)

語源

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/, [pə̥ˈtʰeɪtʰəʊ]
• (General American) enPR: pə-tāʹtō, IPA^(key): /pəˈteɪ.toʊ/, [pə̥ˈtʰeɪɾoʊ], [pə̥ˈtʰeɪɾə]
• 韻: -eɪtəʊ

名詞

potato (複数形 potatoes または potatos)

1. The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant.
   • 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 213:

     Potatoes were introduced to Ireland in 1590 after being brought to Europe by Spanish conquistadores from their place of origin in the South American Andes.

   • 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 42:

     The rocketing popularity of potatoes in London's diet led to the conversion of the temporary GNR passenger station north of the canal [...] as a dedicated potato terminal, whose significant traffic was stolen from coastal shipping.

2. (informal, UK) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking.
3. Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.
   • 1757, [Tobias George Smollett], The Reprisal: Or, The Tars of Old England. […], London: […] R[oberts] Baldwin, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene ii:

     I don't value Monſieur de Champignon a rotten potatoe; […]

   1. (slang, offensive) A mentally handicapped person.
   2. (humorous) A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.
   3. (humorous, slang, computing) An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.
      • 2017 March 17, Steven Messner, “Overwatch community donates PC parts to fan who could barely run it at 800x600”, in PC Gamer‎^[1]:

        When most people refer to their computers as a potato they're being hyperbolic, but not Ethan. He plays Overwatch at 800x600 resolution with all settings on low and is excited when he gets 30 fps.

      • 2019 September 22, Benjamin Burns, “Meet the people making music with Mega Drives, Game Boys and gAtaris”, in Eurogamer‎^[2]:

        If you want to have a go right now, then Famitracker will let you compose songs for the NES and it'll run on a Windows-operated potato.

同意語

• (plant): p'tater (dialectal), spud (スラング), tater (Britain, 米国用法, くだけた用法), tatie (Scotland, Cumbria, 方言), tator (eye 方言)
• (vegetable): Donovan (古風な用法 スラング), earthapple (まれに), murphy, bog orange (廃れた用法 スラング), Irish apricot (廃れた用法 スラング), Irish fruit (廃れた用法 スラング), mickey
• (low-end computer): toaster (スラング)

派生語

形容詞

potato (comparative more potato, superlative most potato)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (computing, slang, humorous, of a computing device) Underpowered; low-end.

   I'd've captured a video of my playthrough rather than just screenshots, but my computer's too potato to comfortably run the game and a video-capture program at the same time.

アナグラム

• patoot, topato

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /poːˈtaː.toː/, [poːˈt̪äːt̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /poˈta.to/, [poˈt̪äːt̪o]

動詞

pōtātō

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of pōtō

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