tenateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Spanish tenate, tanate, from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl tānahtli.

名詞

tenate (plural tenates)

1. A kind of deep cylindrical basket, usually made of woven palm, used in Mexico.
   • 1942, Maria Cristina Chambers, The Water-Carrier’s Secrets, Oxford University Press, page 150:

     She pretended not to hear him and busied herself opening her tenate—the basket without handles, made of matting—where she carried her clothes.

   • 1994, Sergio Galindo, translated by Carolyn Brushwood and John Brushwood, Otilia’s Body: A Novel, The University of Texas Press, translation of Otilia Rauda:

     “You know how I could be the most beautiful woman in the world?”
     “How?”
     “With a tenate basket over my head.”

   • 2016, Mario E. López-Gopar, Decolonizing Primary English Language Teaching, Multilingual Matters:

     He comes back to pick up the tenate full of tortillas and embarks on his daily journey.

アナグラム

• teetan