porpoise

Reikšmė (Anglų k.)

Noun

1. Any small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to dolphins and whales.
2. (Canada, US) Any small dolphin.

Verb

1. (intransitive) Said of an air-breathing aquatic animal such as a porpoise or penguin: To repeatedly jump out of the water to take a breath and dive back in a continuous motion.
2. (intransitive) Said of an aircraft: to make a series of plunges when taking off or landing; or of a watercraft: to successively plunge up and down in the water.

Sinonimai

dolphin

🐬

make wheelies

mereswine

harbour porpoise

jump up

leap

bucking

large fish

sea hog

harbor porpoise

common porpoise

cow-fish

herring hog

grampus

guinea pig

Vertimai

marsouin

marsopa

focena

Schweinswal

bruinvis

Tümmler

toninha

marsopa

boto

delfín

🐬

dauphin

🐬

delfim

🐬

Gewöhnlicher Schweinswal

dolfijn

🐬

Tariamas kaip (IPA)

/ˈpɔːpəs/

Etimologija (Anglų k.)

Paveldėta iš Vidurio Anglijos: porpeys

Sutampa su italų: pesce porco

Sutampa su portugalų: peixe porco

Sutampa su lotynų: porcus marinus

Sutampa su vokiečių: Meerschwein

Sutampa su anglų: mereswine

In summary

From Middle English porpeys, purpeys, borrowed from Anglo-Norman porpeis, purpeis, Old French pourpois, porpois, pourpais, porpeis (“porpoise”), from Vulgar Latin *porcopiscis (“porpoise”, literally “pig-fish”), from Latin porcus (“pig”) + piscis (“fish”). Compare (in transposed order) obsolete Italian pesce porco and Portuguese peixe porco; also Latin porcus marinus (“sea hog”), akin in formation to German Meerschwein, English mereswine. More at mereswine.