flamingo: [16] Flamingos get their name from their reddish-pink plumage, which earned them the epithet ‘fire-bird’. This was expressed in Proven?al (the language of southern French coastal areas, where flamingos abound) as flamenc, a compound formed from flama ‘flame’ (a descendant of Latin flamma) and the Germanic suffix -ing ‘belonging to’. English acquired the word via Portuguese flamengo. (It has, incidentally, no etymological connection with flamenco ‘Spanish dance’ [19], which comes from the Spanish word for ‘Flemish’: the people of Flanders seem to have had a reputation in the Middle Ages for bright, flamboyant dress, and hence ‘Flemish’ in Spanish became synonymous with ‘gipsy-like’.) => flame
flamingo (n.)
long-legged, long-necked brightly colored pink bird of the tropical Americas, 1560s, from Portuguese flamengo, Spanish flamengo, literally "flame-colored" (compare Greek phoinikopteros "flamingo," literally "red-feathered"), from Proven?al flamenc, from flama "flame" (see flame (n.)) + Germanic suffix -enc "-ing, belonging to." Perhaps accommodated to words for Fleming (see flamenco).
例文
1. We met at a bar called the Flamingo .
フラミンゴというバーで会いました。
2.This is the only species of flamingo in the region，easily recognized by its pink plumage.
この地域で唯一のフラミンゴは、ピンク色の羽で識別しやすい。
3.But even the management of the Flamingo was impressed by Dame Blanche！
それでも、フレミンゴのマネージャーは私たちのブランチ夫人に深い印象を持っている！
4.Didn 't you stay at a hotel called the Flamingo ？
あなたはフレミンゴホテルに滞在したことがありますか？
5.In my family，I am a flamingo in a flock of pigeons.