Tornadoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From earlier English ternado, attested since the 1550s as a nautical term for a windy thunderstorm. From Spanish tronada (“thunderstorm”), from tronar (“to thunder”), from Latin tonō (“to thunder”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”). The o and r were reversed in English (metathesis) under influence of Spanish tornar (“to twist, to turn”), from Latin tornō (“to turn”).

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: tô(r)-nā'dō, IPA: /tɔː(ɹ)ˈneɪ.dəʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /tɔɹˈneɪ.doʊ/

名詞

tornado (plural tornadoes or tornados)

1. (meteorology) A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.

   Synonym: twister

   • 2013 March, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 1 May 2013, page 114:

     An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.

同意語

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派生語

派生した語

• → Danish: tornado
• → Irish: tornádó
• → Italian: tornado
• → Norwegian Bokmål: tornado
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: tornado
• → Russian: торнадо (tornado)
• → Spanish: tornado
  • → Dutch: tornado
  • → German: Tornado
  • → Portuguese: tornado

動詞

tornado (third-person singular simple present tornados, present participle tornadoing, simple past and past participle tornadoed)

1. (ambitransitive, figuratively) To sweep through something violently.
   • 2012, Robin Nicole, For the Sake of Appearances:

     And so on Friday nights, James Torin tornadoed through six beers, a carton of cigarettes, a coffee table littered with lottery tickets, and unrequited dreams.

   • 2015, James Richardson, Reservations: Poems, page 5:

     They come every night,
     those cavernous trains, tornadoing
     the frozen house,
     a madness feeling for the door.

参考

• cyclone, dust devil, waterspout, willy willy
• hurricane, typhoon
• tournedo(s)

参照

アナグラム

• donator, odorant, tandoor