hurricane

• n. ハリケーン、暴風雨

スペイン語のhuracanが語源で、最終的には西インド諸島原住民の雷神Juracanが語源となり、雷神は怒ると激しい嵐、ハリケーンを起こす。

hurricane

hurricane: [16] European voyagers first encountered the swirling winds of the hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, and they borrowed a local word to name it – Carib huracan. This found its way into English via Spanish. (An early alternative form was furacano, which came from a Carib variant furacan.)

hurricane (n.)

1550s, a partially deformed adoptation from Spanish huracan (Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdés, "Historia General y Natural de las Indias," 1547-9), furacan (in the works of Pedro Mártir De Anghiera, chaplain to the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella and historian of Spanish explorations), from an Arawakan (W. Indies) word. In Portuguese, it became furac?o. For confusion of initial -f- and -h- in Spanish, see hacienda. The word is first in English in Richard Eden's "Decades of the New World":

These tempestes of the ayer (which the Grecians caule Tiphones ...) they caule furacanes.

OED records 39 different spellings, mostly from the late 16c., including forcane, herrycano, harrycain, hurlecane. Modern form became frequent from 1650, established after 1688. Shakespeare uses hurricano ("King Lear," "Troilus and Cressida"), but in reference to waterspouts.

1. The agency was heavily criticised for its tardy response to the hurricane .

この機関はハリケーンに対する反応が遅れているため、厳しく批判されている。

2. Hurricane Andrew was last night heading into the Gulf of Mexico.昨夜、ハリケーン「アンドリュー」がメキシコ湾に入った。

3.The eye of the hurricane hit Florida just south of Miami.

ハリケーンの風目がフロリダ州マイアミの真南部を襲った。

4. Hurricane Andrew has passed over the southern tip of Florida.

ハリケーン「アンドリュー」がフロリダ州南端を越えた。

5.In 1346 a hurricane whipped up the sea to destroy the town.

1346年のハリケーンは津波を引き起こし、町を破壊した。