alligator

• n. ワニ（米国および中国産）; ワニ革; ワニの口の道具
• くしゃくしゃにする; 割る
• adj.ワニのような; アリゲーター革; クロコダイル?グレイン

スペイン語から。-ligator、トカゲのように。

alligator

alligator: [16] The Spanish, on encountering the alligator in America, called it el lagarto ‘the lizard’. At first English adopted simply the noun (‘In this river we killed a monstrous Lagarto or Crocodile’, Job Hortop, The trauailes of an Englishman 1568), but before the end of the 16th century the Spanish definite article el had been misanalysed as part of the noun – hence, alligator. Spanish lagarto derived from Latin lacerta ‘lizard’, which, via Old French lesard, gave English lizard.
=> lizard

alligator (n.)

1560s, lagarto (modern form attested from 1620s, with excrescent -r as in tater, feller, etc.), a corruption of Spanish el lagarto (de Indias) "the lizard (of the Indies)," from Latin lacertus (see lizard). Alligarter was an early variant. The slang meaning "non-playing devotee of swing music" is attested from 1936; the phrase see you later, alligator is from a 1956 song title.

1. He was grappling with an alligator in a lagoon.

彼は環礁湖でアリゲーターと戦っている。

2. Alligator lives in the rivers and lakes in the hot wet parts of America and China.

ワニはアメリカと中国の江湖と湿熱地帯で生産されている。

3.She wandered off to play with her toy alligator .

彼女はワニのおもちゃで遊び始めた。

4.All the government shoes are made of alligator hide.

公の靴はワニの皮で作られています。

5.An American would be puzzled，to say the least，by a reference to an alligator .

ワニのことを言う人がいたら、アメリカ人は少なくとも戸惑うだろう。