orcaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Learned borrowing from Latin orca (“tun, cask; whale”), see there for more. Although the origin is obscure, the sometimes-cited association with orcus (“underworld”) is folk-etymology. Doublet of orc.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈoɹkə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɔːkə/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)kə

名詞

orca (plural orcas or orca)

1. A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale.

   Synonyms: grampus, killer whale, blackfish

   • 1876, Alexander Schultz, “Account of the Fisheries and Seal-Hunting in the White Sea, the Arctic Ocean, and the Caspian Sea”, in United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part III. Report of the Commissioner for 1873-4 and 1874-5., Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 55:

     In the summer, when the weather is calm and beautiful, large flocks of orcæ can be seen approaching the shallow places near the shore, or between the numerous islands of the White Sea. Several fishermen associate for hunting orcæ, each one furnishing a boat, and a large seine made of cords of the thickness of a finger, the meshes being 10½ inches square.

派生語

参考

• ork, orc

アナグラム

• ocra, acro-, arco, acro, Caro, AOCR, CRAO, Roca, RAOC, Cora, Arco

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɔr.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɔr.ka]

名詞

orca f (genitive orcae); first declension

1. orc, orca (kind of whale)
2. butt, tun (large-bellied vessel)

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

• urceus

派生した語

• Catalan: orca
• Galician: orca
• Italian: orca
• Middle French: orque f
  • French: orque f
  • → English: orc
• Portuguese: orca
• Romanian: orca
• Spanish: orca
• → Dutch: orka
• → English: orca
  • → Cebuano: orca
• → German: Orca
• → Polish: orka, órka (Central Greater Poland)
  • → Kashubian: órka
• → Proto-West Germanic: *ork (see there for further descendants)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: орца
  • Latin script: orka
• → Translingual: orca

参照

Further reading

• “orca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “orca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "orca", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “orca”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “orca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “orca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin