coyoteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyoo-tl. Compare Chinook ki-o-tī.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /kəˈjoʊ.ti/, /kaɪˈoʊ.ti/, (especially Western 米国発音) /ˈkaɪ.oʊt/
• (英国発音) IPA: /kɔɪˈəʊt/, /kɔɪˈəʊtɪ/, /kaɪˈəʊ.ti/

名詞

coyote (plural coyotes)

1. (zoology) Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.

   Synonym: prairie wolf

   • 1824, William Bullock, Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico, page 119:

     Near Rio Frio we shot several handsome birds, and saw a cayjotte, or wild dog, which in size nearly approached the wolf.

   • 1996, AnimaLife, volume 6, page 14:

     The MWRC animal care specialists attempted to unimprint the coyotes first by limiting their human contact and putting them with other wild coyotes. The hand-raised coyotes, however, were ostracized by the wild coyotes […]

2. (US, informal) A smuggler of undocumented immigrants across the land border from Latin America into the United States of America.
   • 2020 July 23, Abrahm Lustgarten, “The Great Climate Migration”, in The New York Times‎:

     Jorge’s father had pawned his last four goats for $2,000 to help pay for their transit, another loan the family would have to repay at 100 percent interest. The coyote called at 10 p.m. — they would go that night.

下位語

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Irish: cadhóit

動詞

coyote (third-person singular simple present coyotes, present participle coyoteing or coyoting, simple past and past participle coyoted)

1. To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a hillside.

参考

• canids: coyote · dog · fox · jackal · wolf

Further reading

• coyote on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• oocyte, oöcyte