tortoise
要点カメ
意味
- (特に陸生の)カメ(亀)
例文
A rabbit and a tortoise raced against each other.
うさぎとかめが競走した。
The hare was outdistanced by the tortoise.
うさぎはかめに追い越された。
The small island looked like a tortoise from a distance.
遠くからは、その小さな島は亀のように見えた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English tortuse, tortuce, tortuge, from Medieval Latin tortuca, of uncertain origin. May be from Late Latin tartarūcha, from tartarūchus, from Ancient Greek ταρταροῦχος (tartaroûkhos, literally “holder of Tartarus [the land of the damned dead in Greek myths]”), because it used to be thought that tortoises and turtles came from the underworld and they were commonly paired with such infernal beasts; see Τάρταρος (Tártaros). Or, from Latin tortus (“twisted”). The French-looking Modern English spelling tortoise may be influenced by porpoise. Displaced native Old English byrdling.