ラテン語のTeutonesから、ゲルマン語、チュートン語、原ゲルマン語*theudanozから、PIE*teuta, people, nationから、語源的にはDeutsch, Dutchと同じ、さらにPIE*teu, to bulge, to make strongから、語源的にはthumb, thighと同じと考えられることが多い。
英語の語源
Teutonic (adj.)
1610s, "of or pertaining to the Germanic languages and to peoples or tribes who speak or spoke them," from Latin Teutonicus, from Teutones, Teutoni, name of a tribe that inhabited coastal Germany near the mouth of the Elbe and devastated Gaul 113-101 B.C.E., probably via Celtic from Proto-Germanic *theudanoz, from PIE *teuta-, the common word for "people, tribe" (cognates: Lithuanian tauto, Oscan touto, Old Irish tuath, Gothic tiuda, Old English teod "people, race, nation").
Used in English in anthropology to avoid the modern political association of German; but in this anthropological sense French uses germanique and German uses germanisch, because neither uses its form of German for the narrower national meaning (compare French allemand, for which see Alemanni; and German deutsch, under Dutch). In Finnish, Germany is Saksa "Land of the Saxons."
The Teutonic Knights (founded c.1191) were a military order of German knights formed for service in the Holy Land, but who later crusaded in then-pagan Prussia and Lithuania. The Teutonic cross (1882) was the badge of the order.
例文
1. The coach was a masterpiece of Teutonic engineering.
という長距離バスは、ドイツのエンジニアリング設計レベルを体現する傑作です。
2.There was sweat pouring over her Teutonic face.
汗が典型的なドイツ人の顔を伝って流れ落ちた。
3.The preparations were made with Teutonic thoroughness.
各準備はすべてゲルマン人の緻密な精神で完成した。
4.Crikey,sir.You look more Teutonic than the Kommandant himself.
あら、長官、あなたはKommandantよりもゲルマン人に見えます。
5.The Anglo-Saxons brought their own Teutonic religion to Britain.