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)

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 219939191, 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

派生語

形容詞

potato (comparative more potato, superlative most potato)

1. (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-person singular future active imperative of pōtō
2. third-person singular future active imperative of pōtō

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