funnel: [15] Etymologically, a funnel is something used for ‘pouring in’. The word comes via Proven?al fonilh from Latin infundibulum ‘funnel’. This was a derivative of infundere ‘pour in’, a compound verb formed from in- ‘in’ and fundere ‘pour’ (source of English found ‘melt’, foundry, and fuse). => found, foundry, fuse
funnel (n.)
c. 1400, funell, fonel, from Middle French fonel, apparently a word from a southern French dialect, such as Proven?al enfounilh (Weekley calls it "a word from the Southern wine trade"), from Late Latin fundibulum, shortened from Latin infundibulum "a funnel or hopper in a mill," from infundere "pour in," from in- "in" + fundere "pour" (see found (v.2)).
funnel (v.)
1590s, from funnel (n.). Related: Funneled; funneling.
例文
1. He poured the petrol into the car through a funnel .
ガソリンを漏斗で自動車に注入した。
2.A thread of smoke was wisping out of the funnel .
煙突から煙がゆらゆらと上がっている。
3.I like the ship with a yellow funnel .
黄色の煙突のある船が好きです。
4.The top of the funnel is connected to a tube.
この漏斗の上部にパイプが接続されています。
5.The funnel -shaped self-potential curve of the Eocene sands is well marked.