tornado的意思

tornado

英式音标[tɔr'nedo]
美式英标[tɔː'neɪdəʊ]

基本解释

n. [气象] 龙卷风；旋风；暴风；大雷雨

n. (Tornado)人名；(西)托纳多

tornado 龙卷风，旋风，雷暴

来自西班牙语 tronada,雷暴，来自 tronar,打雷，来自拉丁语 tonare,打雷，词源同 thunder,Thor. 拼写和词义可能受到拉丁语 tornare 影响，来自 tornare,扭曲，转动，词源同 turn.引申词义龙卷风，旋风。

tornado: tornado: [16] Tornado appears to denote etymologically something that ‘turns’, but this is due to a piece of English folk-etymologizing. Its actual source is Spanish tronada ‘thunderstorm’, a derivative of the verb tronar ‘thunder’ (which in turn went back to Latin tonāre ‘thunder’, source of English astonish, detonate, etc). It was at first used in English for a ‘violent thunderstorm’, but confusion with Spanish tornado ‘turned’ had converted tronada into tornado, and as early as the 1620s we find it being applied to a ‘whirlwind’.
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tornado (n.): 1550s, ternado, navigator's word for violent windy thunderstorm in the tropical Atlantic, probably a mangled borrowing from Spanish tronada "thunderstorm," from tronar "to thunder," from Latin tonare "to thunder" (see thunder (n.)). Also in 17c. spelled tornatho, tornathe, turnado; modern spelling by 1620s. Metathesis of -o- and -r- in modern spelling influenced by Spanish tornar "to twist, turn," from Latin tornare "to turn." Meaning "extremely violent whirlwind" is first found 1620s; specifically "destructive rotary funnel cloud" (especially in the U.S. Midwest) from 1849. Related: Tornadic.

1. The National Weather Service has reported several tornado sightings in Illinois.: 美国国家气象局报道说在伊利诺伊州出现了几次龙卷风。