typhoon
要点台風
意味
- 台風(特に太平洋西部海域・シナ海の)
例文
The typhoon accounted for the closing of school.
台風のために休校になった。
The meeting was canceled because of the typhoon.
会は台風のため中止になった。
Happily the crops were not harmed by the typhoon.
幸いにも作物は台風の被害を受けなかった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
English texts mention typhon, tiphon as a Greek word for "whirlwind" since at least the 1550s, referring to Ancient Greek τυφῶν (tuphôn), τυφώς (tuphṓs, “whirlwind”) (the latter attested since Aeschylus), Τυφῶν (Tuphôn, “Typhon, father of the winds”). (French typhon (“whirlwind”) is said to be attested since 1504.) However, the first use of it as an English word for a whirlwind or storm dates to 1588, in the spelling Touffon, in the specific sense "giant storm in the Pacific"; this sense first appears in Europe in the mid 16th century in Portuguese tufão (attested since at least 1560), whence it entered English.