シスコ
解説 Definition
ciscoとは、北米のスペリオル湖以北の冷たい水域に生息する淡水魚の一種です。ニシン目に属し、食用としても利用される魚です。主にカナダや米国北部の湖に生息しています。
A small freshwater fish of the salmon family, found mainly in cold, deep lakes of northern North America. Cisco are eaten by people and also serve as an important food source for larger fish such as lake trout.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
魚名のciscoとして覚え、企業名のCiscoとは文脈で区別する。cold, deep waters、Lake Superior、catch ciscoのように、北米北部の冷たい湖と結び付けるとよい。lake herringとも呼ばれる小型のサケ科淡水魚で、例文のCisco areでは同形の複数として扱われている。
Associate cisco with the cold, deep lakes of northern North America, especially Lake Superior. It is a small salmon-family fish also called the lake herring, and it is important both as food for people and as prey for larger fish. Phrases such as catch cisco and schools of cisco help fix the biological meaning. In the examples, cisco functions as a plural without changing form. Context distinguishes this fish name from Cisco, the technology company, which is normally capitalized.
例文
Cisco are commonly found in the cold, deep waters of Lake Superior.
シスコはスペリオル湖の冷たく深い水域によく見られる。
The fishermen caught several cisco during their early morning trip on the lake.
漁師たちは湖での早朝の釣り旅行でシスコを数匹捕まえた。
Cisco are an important food source for larger fish like lake trout in northern waters.
シスコは北部の水域でレイクトラウトのような大型魚にとって重要な食料源だ。
cisco の類義語・関連語
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cisco の語源・成り立ち Etymology
魚名の cisco は19世紀英語で、カナダ系フランス語 ciscoette の短縮形です。さらに先ではオジブウェー語系の魚名と結びつくとされ、関連語に siscowet もあります。土地の呼び名がそのまま入ったため、“その魚そのもの”を指す固有名のような形で残りました。
The fish name cisco entered nineteenth-century English from Canadian French, probably as a shortened form related to ciscoette. That form is generally connected with an Indigenous North American fish name, often identified as Ojibwe or a related Algonquian source. The precise path and spelling history are not fully certain. English retained the regional name for several closely related cold-water fishes; siscowet is another Great Lakes fish name of related Indigenous origin.
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