tomatoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• tomater (eye dialect)
• 'mater (Southern US, Appalachia, informal)

語源

Variant of earlier tomate, from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl, from Proto-Nahuan *toma-tl. Compare tomatillo.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /təˈmɑː.təʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /təˈmeɪ.toʊ/, (colloquial, sometimes) /təˈmeɪ.tə/
• (Canada) IPA: [tʰəˈmeɪɾo], [tʰəˈme(ː)to(ː)], [tʰɵ-], [-ma-]
• (Indic) IPA: /ʈɵˈmaʈo/, /ʈɵˈmɑʈo/, /ʈɵˈmeʈo/
• 韻: -ɑːtəʊ, -eɪtəʊ, -ætəʊ

名詞

tomato (countable and uncountable, plural tomatoes)

1. A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
2. The savory fruit of this plant, most often red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.

   He was chopping a tomato to put in the salad.

   He was eating a tomato when his boss called him.

   Synonyms: (archaic) love apple, (obsolete) wolf's peach

   Meronym: lycopene

   • 1990, JSG Trading Corp. v. Tray-Wrap, Inc., 917 F.2d 75 (2d Cir. 1990)

     In common parlance tomatoes are vegetables, as the Supreme Court observed long ago [see Nix v. Hedden 149 U.S. 304, 307, 13 S.Ct. 881, 882, 37 L.Ed. 745 (1893)], although botanically speaking they are actually a fruit. [26 Encyclopedia Americana 832 (Int'l. ed. 1981)]. Regardless of classification, people have been enjoying tomatoes for centuries; even Mr. Pickwick, as Dickens relates, ate his chops in "tomata" sauce.

3. A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.

   tomato:  

4. (slang) A desirable-looking woman.

   Look at the legs on that hot tomato!

   • 1999 April 4, Frank Decaro, “No Longer the Punch-Line State; Lauryn Hill, the Sopranos and others are unapologetic New Jerseyans.”, in The New York Times‎, section 9, page 1:

     Deborah Harry, the New Wave goddess, is finally admitting -- after all the peroxide and posturing of the 1970's and 80's -- that she's really just a ''tomato'' (her word) from Paterson, who spent her youth on ''this section of street up in Totowa where all the slutty girls would walk around and meet boys.''

   • 2008, Denny Durbin, Lazy Enchiladas: Redefining Success: Tasty Lessons on Love, Life, & Relationships, Bodega Publishing, →ISBN, page 13:

     When she left the room, I asked Robert, “Who's the tomato?” “Marisa. She's from Mexico.” He had a telltale smile on his face.

   • 2015 19 Old-Fashioned Compliments We Should Bring Back

     That shirt makes you look like such a glorious tomato.

   • 2020, Libba Bray, The King of Crows, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:

     “Who's the tomato?” a cop said as Evie walked past. “Her? She's the stiff's niece,” another cop answered. Evie flinched to hear Will discussed like that. “You wanna clam up?” Malloy barked and the officers fell silent.

5. (slang) A stupid act or person.

上位語

• fruit, vegetable (see tomato § Fruit or vegetable)
  • berry

派生語

関連する語

• tomatillo

派生した語

形容詞

tomato (comparative more tomato, superlative most tomato)

1. Of a shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.

   tomato:  

   • 1990, Beverley Farmer, “December”, in A Body of Water, Sydney, N.S.W.: Giramondo Publishing, published 2020, →ISBN:

     Her face is on the cover: the Anne Estelle Rice portrait – or the black-eyed Japanese-bobbed head-and-shoulders bit of it – and the square-yoked dress is tomato, or pomegranate, but never persimmon. If it stayed too long in the sun and faded, well yes, maybe then…

   • 2011, Jackie Braun, “Most Focused”, in Mr. Right There All Along (Harlequin Romance, #4258; The Fun Factor), Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 220:

     And she’d slathered a heavy layer of foundation over the raw skin of her face with the end result being a complexion that was more tomato than orange.

   • 2013, Jillian Cantor, Margot, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, pages 93–94 (chapter 16) and 164 (chapter 26):

     This afternoon, though, she saunters in, draped in a dress the color of a ripe tomato, with a hat to match, her hair twisted underneath in some kind of fashionable up-do that seems impossible to create oneself. […] Penny is sitting there, on the bed, next to me, chewing on the end of the pen, dressed in her frivolous tomato dress.

   • 2021, Traci Andrighetti, chapter 9, in Valpolicella Violet (Franki Amato Mysteries; 7), Limoncello Press, →ISBN:

     Intending to tease out Shona’s know-it-all nature by spouting off some trivia, I googled the Pala d’Oro on my phone. It was pure folly, but I was kind of worried about her. “Wikipedia says the cloth has a hundred and eighty-seven enamel plaques depicting Christ and the saints that are decorated with gold, silver, and around two thousand gems.” I peeked at Shona, whose face was tomato, and continued.

動詞

tomato (third-person singular simple present tomatos, present participle tomatoing, simple past and past participle tomatoed)

1. (transitive, rare) to pelt with tomatoes
2. (transitive, rare) to add tomatoes to (a dish)