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torpedo

/tɔrpˈidˌoʊ/ やや難 頻度 13230位

意味

  1. 魚雷,魚形水雷
  2. (鉄道の)発雷信号
  3. かんしゃく玉
  4. …を魚雷で爆破する

例文

語源

英語の原文(Wiktionary)

* Borrowed from Latin torpēdō (“a torpedo fish; numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from torpeō (“to be stiff, numb, torpid; to be astounded; to be inactive”) + -ēdō (noun suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”). In the military sense coined by Robert Fulton in 1805. Cognate with Old English steorfan (“to die”), Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”), Lithuanian tirpstu (“to become rigid”), Old Church Slavonic трупети (trupeti). * (type of car): From 1908, after "the Torpedo", a car designed by Captain Theo Masui.

出典: Wiktionary「torpedo」(CC BY-SA 4.0)

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