medanon.

Brit.

/ˈmeɪdənəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈmeɪdənoʊ/

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish médano.

Etymology: < Spanish médano sandbank, sand dune (1624, used especially in American Spanish), cognate with Portuguese medão sand dune (third quarter of 15th cent. as medoões , plural), of uncertain origin, but probably ultimately < classical Latin mēta cone, heap (in spec. sense ‘haystack’ in Columella: see meta n.¹), perhaps via a post-classical Latin neuter form corresponding to classical Latin mētula small heap < mēta + -ula -ula suffix. Compare Spanish (especially Galician, Asturian) meda conical haystack (recorded 1734 for Galician but probably earlier), Portuguese meda conical haystack, sand dune (a1606).For a fuller discussion of various etymological theories, see J. Corominas Diccionario Crítico Etimológico de la Lengua Castellana (1985) at médano.

A shifting crescent-shaped sand dune, a barchan; esp. a coastal one in Peru or Chile.

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dene1278

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sand down1604

dune1605

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sand-dune1830

medano1839

sea-bank1858

barchan1888

whaleback1918

fore-dune1921

seif1925

1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 516 The whole surface of the Pampa is covered with hillocks of white sand of impalpable fineness, called medanos.

1851 Bollaert in Jrnl. Geogr. Soc. 21 101 In these desert plains [of Peru] may be seen the ‘Medanos’, or moving semicircular sand-hills.

1897 Geogr. Jrnl. 9 307 The barchanes, or, as we call them, medanos.

1924 R. Clements Gipsy of Horn ix. 182 Here [i.e. in Peru], for the first time, I saw those queen sand-dunes, the medanos. They are shifting crescents of sand, blown before the wind, and giving the desert the aspect of a sandy sea.

1979 Coastal Res. 5 v. 8 The local polymodal wind regime results in the formation of high (25 m), steep conical dunes called medanos, with each medano containing over 300,000 m³ of sand.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	medano
释义	medanon. Brit. /ˈmeɪdənəʊ/, U.S. /ˈmeɪdənoʊ/ Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish médano. Etymology: < Spanish médano sandbank, sand dune (1624, used especially in American Spanish), cognate with Portuguese medão sand dune (third quarter of 15th cent. as medoões , plural), of uncertain origin, but probably ultimately < classical Latin mēta cone, heap (in spec. sense ‘haystack’ in Columella: see meta n.¹), perhaps via a post-classical Latin neuter form corresponding to classical Latin mētula small heap < mēta + -ula -ula suffix. Compare Spanish (especially Galician, Asturian) meda conical haystack (recorded 1734 for Galician but probably earlier), Portuguese meda conical haystack, sand dune (a1606).For a fuller discussion of various etymological theories, see J. Corominas Diccionario Crítico Etimológico de la Lengua Castellana (1985) at médano. A shifting crescent-shaped sand dune, a barchan; esp. a coastal one in Peru or Chile. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > sand-hill sand-hillc725 dene1278 down1523 sand down1604 dune1605 hummock1793 towan1803 sand-dune1830 medano1839 sea-bank1858 barchan1888 whaleback1918 fore-dune1921 seif1925 1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 516 The whole surface of the Pampa is covered with hillocks of white sand of impalpable fineness, called medanos. 1851 Bollaert in Jrnl. Geogr. Soc. 21 101 In these desert plains [of Peru] may be seen the ‘Medanos’, or moving semicircular sand-hills. 1897 Geogr. Jrnl. 9 307 The barchanes, or, as we call them, medanos. 1924 R. Clements Gipsy of Horn ix. 182 Here [i.e. in Peru], for the first time, I saw those queen sand-dunes, the medanos. They are shifting crescents of sand, blown before the wind, and giving the desert the aspect of a sandy sea. 1979 Coastal Res. 5 v. 8 The local polymodal wind regime results in the formation of high (25 m), steep conical dunes called medanos, with each medano containing over 300,000 m³ of sand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1839
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