CoCoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Co-Co (plural Co-Cos)

1. (rail transport) A wheel arrangement for diesel and electric locomotives signifying that a locomotive has six axles, each powered by a motor, on two bogies.
   • 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 136–137:

     With their high horsepower, the new Bo-Bos, of which six are on order for trial purposes, but which should ultimately number 50, will take over most of the Gotthard passenger workings from the 6,000 h.p. Co-Cos, permitting the latter to take a greater share of the steadily increasing freight workings over this route, the aim being to work 1,200-ton freight trains up the long 1 in 38-40 approaches to the Gotthard tunnel with 6,000 h.p. Co-Cos in pairs.

別の表記

• C-C

関連する語

• Bo-Bo
• 1Co-Co1

語源

From Portuguese/Spanish coco (“grinning face”) (due to the three holes in the shell resembling a human face). Doublet of coque.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/
• (米国発音) enPR: kōʹkō, IPA: /ˈkoʊ.koʊ/
• 韻: -əʊkəʊ
• Homophone: cocoa
• ハイフネーション: co‧co

名詞

coco (plural cocos or cocoes)

1. Coconut palm.
   • 1992, Frances Temple, Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti‎, page 52:

     I turn round and round to see the high mountains, the thick coco trees.

2. Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm.
   • 1625, Samuel Purchas, “Their Cocos and other fruits and food, their Trades and trading, Creatures profitable and hurtfull. Of Male their principall Iland. Their Houſes, Candou, Languages, Apparell.”, in Pvrchas his Pilgrimes. In Five Bookes. [...] The Second Part., volume II, London: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose, →OCLC, page 1643 [sic: 1653]:

     They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber.

   • 1813, John Adams, “A Voyage to South America”, in John Pinkerton, editor, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World‎, page 355:

     The coco is a very common fruit, and but little esteemed; […]

   • 2007, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Frommer's Caribbean 2008‎, →ISBN, page 468:

     You might opt for a heaping tower composed of fried oysters, coco-flavored shrimp, fried octopus, and calamari.

派生語

関連する語

• coco-de-mer

参考

• cocoa (cacao, altered by confusion with coco)

参照

動詞

cocō (present infinitive cocere, perfect active coxī, supine coctum); third conjugation (Late Latin)

1. alternative form of coquō (“cook”) (attested from the third century CE)

派生した語

語源 2

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkɔ.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkɔː.ko]

名詞

cocō

1. dative/ablative singular of cocus

参照

Further reading

• “coco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "coco", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)