leopard
意味
- ヒョウ
例文
What's the difference between lions and leopards?
ライオンとヒョウの違いは何ですか。
His eyes look like those of a leopard.
彼の目はヒョウの様だ。
How are lions and leopards different?
ライオンとヒョウはどう違うのでしょうか？
語源
leoライオン＋pardヒョウ
ギリシャ語で「ライオン(leon)＋ヒョウ(pardos)」。ライオンとヒョウの交雑と考えられていた動物の名から「ヒョウ」。
Leo（しし座）も「ライオン」。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English leopard, leopart, lepard, leperd, from Old French leopard (“leopard”), from Late Latin leopardus (“leopon, lipard”) from late Ancient Greek λεόπαρδος (leópardos, “leopon, lipard”), from λέων (léōn, “lion”) + πάρδος (párdos, “pard, male leopard”), from earlier πάρδαλις (párdalis, “leopard”), probably from an unattested Old Persian [Term?] term ancestral to Middle Persian [script needed] (palang), Khwarezmian [script needed] (plyk), Sogdian [script needed] (pwrδnk), Pashto پړانګ (pṛāng). Compare Persian پلنگ (palang) and Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛdāku, “panther”). First attested in the late 13th c. (early 13th c. as a surname).