マナティー
解説 Definition
manatee は、暖かい沿岸部や川にすむ大型の水生哺乳類、マナティーのことです。日本語のカタカナ語「マナティー」とほぼ同じ意味で、動物名として使われます。
A large, slow-moving aquatic mammal that lives in warm coastal waters, rivers, and estuaries and feeds mainly on water plants. Manatees have rounded bodies, paddle-shaped flippers, and broad, flattened tails.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
manatee は日本語の「マナティー」と同じ動物名です。a manatee と単数で使い、複数形は manatees。slowly swim、near the shore、eat sea grass などの表現と結び付け、暖かい川や沿岸でゆっくり泳ぐ大型の草食性水生哺乳類を思い浮かべます。dugong は同じ海牛目ですが別の動物です。
The Japanese loanword マナティー closely matches manatee, so focus on how the English noun behaves. Say a manatee for one animal and manatees for more than one. Build a clear habitat scene from common combinations: a manatee swims slowly near the shore, lives in warm rivers or coastal water, and eats aquatic plants. This separates it from a seal or whale. Also compare it with dugong: both belong to the order Sirenia and are often called sea cows, but they are distinct animals with different tail shapes and geographical distributions.
例文
A manatee swam slowly near the shore.
一頭のマナティーが岸の近くをゆっくり泳いでいました。
The aquarium cares for an injured manatee.
その水族館はけがをしたマナティーを保護しています。
Visitors watched the manatee eat sea grass.
来場者はマナティーが海草を食べる様子を見ました。
manatee の類義語・関連語
manatee の語源・成り立ち Etymology
スペイン語 manatí を経て、カリブ海先住民タイノ族の言語で「乳房」を意味する語に由来するとされる。メスが子を胸に抱えて授乳する姿から名付けられた。同じ海牛目の dugong（ジュゴン）はマレー語起源で、地域ごとに異なる命名がされた水生哺乳類である。
English manatee came through Spanish manatí from a Caribbean Indigenous language, commonly identified as Taíno. The deeper meaning is often connected with a word for “breast,” although details of the early transmission are not completely certain. European languages adopted the name for these aquatic mammals of the Caribbean and nearby regions. The unrelated name dugong came from a Malay-language source, showing that different members of the order Sirenia received names through different regional languages.
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