tunaとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Relative sizes of various tunas tuna on Wikipedia.

From American Spanish alteration of the Spanish atún, from Arabic تُنّ‎ (tunn, “tuna”) from Latin thunnus, itself from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos), from θύνω (thúnō), "I rush, dart along").^[1][2]

名詞

tuna (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 tuna または tunas)

1. Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
   • 1887, John White, The Ancient History of the Maori, 84:

     Tuna was carried down by the flood; and when Maui saw him in the net he stretched forth his arm and with a blow of his stone axe smote Tuna and cut off his head, and it and the tail fell into the ocean. ... The head became fish, and the tail became the koiro (ngoiro—conger-eel).

2. The edible flesh of the tuna.

同意語

• tuna fish, tunny

派生語

• yellowfin tuna

参照

参考

• tuna on Wikipedia.
• Thunnus on Wikispecies.

語源 2

From Taíno.

Prickly pear.

名詞

tuna (複数形 tunas)

1. The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
2. The fruit of the cactus.

参考

• xoconostle

Further reading

• Opuntia on Wikipedia.
• Opuntia on Wikispecies.
• Opuntia on Wikimedia Commons.

アナグラム

• -naut, aunt, naut., tuan