caymancaimann.

Brit.

/ˈkeɪmən/, U.S.

/ˈkeɪmən/

Forms: 1600s caimain, 1800s kayman, kaiman.

Etymology: In Spanish and Portuguese caiman, French caïman, apparently < Carib. Martini, Galibi (Mainland Carib) Dict. has ‘cayman crocodilus’; Rochefort (c1660) Iles Antilles 225 ‘le crocodile que les insulaires nomment cayeman. Littré cites Carib Acayoúman ‘crocodile’, from Dict. Fr. Caraïbe of P. Raymond Breton, 1661. Very positive statements, however, assert the word to be African, from Congo; Pigafetta 1598 (translated in Yule) says In this river (Zaire or Congo)..mighty great crocodiles, which the country people there call caiman.’ And Cuvier Règne Animal, Sauri (transl.) IX. 196 says ‘The slaves on their arrival from Africa, at sight of a crocodile, gave it immediately the name of cayman. It would appear from this that it was the negroes who spread the name throughout America’. But as Bontius 1631 (cited by Yule) says Cayman is the name ‘per totam Indiam’ (i.e. the East Indies), the name appears to be one of those like anaconda and bom, boma, which the Portuguese or Spaniards very early caught up in one part of the world, and naturalized in another.

A name applied to some large saurians of the crocodile family: (a) the genus of these confined to America, and distinguished from the true crocodiles mainly by the shortness and roundness of the muzzle, and the inferior development of the webs between the toes; also called alligator n.¹; (b) esp. the species of this genus found in the tropics of South America, chiefly A. palpebrosus and trigonatus, as distinguished from A. Lucius, the North American species, to which the term alligator is more particularly applied; (c) loosely applied to all large American saurians, some of which are true crocodiles; and sometimes extended even to those of Africa or Asia.

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1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes ii. f. 73^v Caimanes, that are called Lagartos [in New Granada].

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) xii. 45 The great Lisarts, or Caimains [on same page, Caymanes].

1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 703 The Stone in the Stomach of a Cayman or Crocodile.

1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. ii. 75 At the Isle Grand Caymanes, there are Crocodiles, but no Alligators. At Pines by Cuba, there are abundance of Crocodiles, but I cannot say there are no Alligators... Both Kinds are called Caymanes by the Spaniards.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 119 The Crocodile, properly so called, and the Cayman or Alligator.

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. vii. 145 The alligator or cayman (as called by the natives and negroes).

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. vii. 146 That [name] which the Indians called them by, viz. the cayman.

1831 D. Tyerman & G. Bennet Voy. & Trav. II. liii. 523 They [native fishermen in Madagascar] frequently have to dispute with a kayman (the alligator) for their property.

1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xxiii. 324 He cannot bathe on account of the caymans.

1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter 159 See, where the caiman lies ready to devour us.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	cayman
释义	caymancaimann. Brit. /ˈkeɪmən/, U.S. /ˈkeɪmən/ Forms: 1600s caimain, 1800s kayman, kaiman. Etymology: In Spanish and Portuguese caiman, French caïman, apparently < Carib. Martini, Galibi (Mainland Carib) Dict. has ‘cayman crocodilus’; Rochefort (c1660) Iles Antilles 225 ‘le crocodile que les insulaires nomment cayeman. Littré cites Carib Acayoúman ‘crocodile’, from Dict. Fr. Caraïbe of P. Raymond Breton, 1661. Very positive statements, however, assert the word to be African, from Congo; Pigafetta 1598 (translated in Yule) says In this river (Zaire or Congo)..mighty great crocodiles, which the country people there call caiman.’ And Cuvier Règne Animal, Sauri (transl.) IX. 196 says ‘The slaves on their arrival from Africa, at sight of a crocodile, gave it immediately the name of cayman. It would appear from this that it was the negroes who spread the name throughout America’. But as Bontius 1631 (cited by Yule) says Cayman is the name ‘per totam Indiam’ (i.e. the East Indies), the name appears to be one of those like anaconda and bom, boma, which the Portuguese or Spaniards very early caught up in one part of the world, and naturalized in another. A name applied to some large saurians of the crocodile family: (a) the genus of these confined to America, and distinguished from the true crocodiles mainly by the shortness and roundness of the muzzle, and the inferior development of the webs between the toes; also called alligator n.¹; (b) esp. the species of this genus found in the tropics of South America, chiefly A. palpebrosus and trigonatus, as distinguished from A. Lucius, the North American species, to which the term alligator is more particularly applied; (c) loosely applied to all large American saurians, some of which are true crocodiles; and sometimes extended even to those of Africa or Asia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Crocodilia (crocodiles and alligators) > [noun] > member of crocodilec1300 cayman1577 crocodilian1836 the world > animals > reptiles > order Crocodilia (crocodiles and alligators) > [noun] > suborder Eusuchia > family Alligatoridae > member of (alligator) cayman1577 lagarto1577 alligator1591 'gator1844 the world > animals > reptiles > order Crocodilia (crocodiles and alligators) > [noun] > suborder Eusuchia > family Alligatoridae > south American cayman1577 jacare1753 1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes ii. f. 73^v Caimanes, that are called Lagartos [in New Granada]. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) xii. 45 The great Lisarts, or Caimains [on same page, Caymanes]. 1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 703 The Stone in the Stomach of a Cayman or Crocodile. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. ii. 75 At the Isle Grand Caymanes, there are Crocodiles, but no Alligators. At Pines by Cuba, there are abundance of Crocodiles, but I cannot say there are no Alligators... Both Kinds are called Caymanes by the Spaniards. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 119 The Crocodile, properly so called, and the Cayman or Alligator. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. vii. 145 The alligator or cayman (as called by the natives and negroes). 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. vii. 146 That [name] which the Indians called them by, viz. the cayman. 1831 D. Tyerman & G. Bennet Voy. & Trav. II. liii. 523 They [native fishermen in Madagascar] frequently have to dispute with a kayman (the alligator) for their property. 1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xxiii. 324 He cannot bathe on account of the caymans. 1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter 159 See, where the caiman lies ready to devour us. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1577
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