カラフトシシャモ
解説 Definition
カラフトシシャモ。北方の海に生息するキュウリウオ科の小型海水魚。capelinの異綴り。
A caplin is a small, silvery northern marine fish, also commonly spelled capelin. It gathers in large schools, migrates predictably to spawn, and serves as an important food source for larger fish, seabirds, and marine mammals.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
caplin は capelin の綴り違いとして覚え、北大西洋・北極海の群れをなす小魚を思い浮かべる。大型魚を支える重要な餌なので、caplin migration、caplin populations のような生態学的な組み合わせが典型。語源上は chaplain、chapel と遠くつながる。
Remember caplin as a spelling variant of capelin, the familiar name for a small northern sea fish. Picture great schools of these fish moving toward shore during a predictable spawning migration. Because larger fish, seabirds, and marine mammals feed on them, phrases such as caplin populations and caplin migration often occur in ecological writing. The surprising historical link to chaplain and chapel provides another memory anchor: the fish name ultimately came through a French word for a priest, traditionally associated with the appearance of its dorsal fin.
例文
Caplin form large schools in northern seas.
カラフトシシャモは北方の海で大きな群れを作る。
Many larger fish feed on caplin.
多くの大型魚がカラフトシシャモを餌にする。
Caplin migrate toward shore to spawn.
カラフトシシャモは産卵のため沿岸へ回遊する。
caplin の類義語・関連語
類義語
caplin の語源・成り立ち Etymology
フランス語 capelan（司祭）に由来し、さらにラテン語 cappellanus（礼拝堂付き司祭）に遡る。この魚の背びれが司祭の頭巾に似ていることから名付けられた。関連語: chaplain（牧師）、chapel（礼拝堂）。語源が「魚」でなく「聖職者」である点が面白い。
Caplin is a variant of capelin, borrowed through French capelan. The French word also meant “chaplain” and ultimately goes back to Medieval Latin cappellanus, a priest attached to a chapel. The fish name is traditionally explained by a perceived resemblance between its dorsal fin and a clerical hood. Thus caplin is historically related to the English words chaplain and chapel, although its modern meaning is entirely zoological.
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