tornado
意味
- (特に米国中部に発生する)竜巻
- 大旋風
例文
The tornado destroyed the whole village.
竜巻で村全体が破壊された。
There was a tornado in the village.
村に竜巻が起こった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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”).