cachalotn.

Brit.

/ˈkaʃəlɒt/,

/ˈkaʃələʊ/, U.S.

/ˈkæʃəˌlɑt/

Forms: Also 1700s–1800s -elot.

Etymology: < French cachalot, in the Bayonne dialect of 17th cent. cachalut, apparently meaning, ‘toothed’, from a Romanic word for ‘tooth’ or ‘grinder’, in Gascon cachau, Carcassone caichal, Catalan caxal, Provençal dialects caissal, caysal. The first notice of the word in English writers is quoted from the French of Anderson's Histoire Naturelle de Island, etc. (Hamburg 1746). The word is now found in most European languages, as German kachalot, Danish kaskelot, Swedish kaselot, Dutch kazilot, etc. (In Miscellanea Curiosa, 1670 (Frankfort, and Leipzig 1681), observation cxxxvi. (p. 266) treats of this whale ‘qui in Bayonna, Byaris, et in insula S. Johannis de Luca, et in locis ubi capitur Cachalut, latine Orca dicitur’.) A different derivation is proposed by Zobler, Zeitsch. f. Rom. Philol. IV. 176, whereby he would connect it with Spanish cachuelo, which derives < Latin catulus.

A genus of whales, belonging to the family Catodontidæ, distinguished by the presence of teeth in the lower jaw. The Common Cachalot, or Sperm Whale, which yields spermaceti, grows to the length of 70 feet, and has a head nearly one-half of the length of the body; it occurs in all seas, but its home is the Pacific Ocean.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Physeteridae > genus Physeter (sperm whale)

trumpa1625

spermaceti whale1658

pot-walfish1694

parmacety1705

pot-fish1744

cachalot1747

physeter1753

sperm whale1839

sperm1840

macrocephalus1851

greyhead1859

physeteroid1876

1747 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 174/2 The figure which M. Anderson gives us of the cachelot..has the air of a monster.

1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 45 This genus..the French call Cachalot, a name we have adopted.

1832 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 2) II. 279 A herd of Cachalots, upwards of one hundred in number, were found stranded at Kairston, Orkney.

1833 C. Bell Hand (1834) 298 The physeter or cachelot whale..has a very large head and is remarkable for having teeth.

1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §213.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	cachalot
释义	cachalotn. Brit. /ˈkaʃəlɒt/, /ˈkaʃələʊ/, U.S. /ˈkæʃəˌlɑt/ Forms: Also 1700s–1800s -elot. Etymology: < French cachalot, in the Bayonne dialect of 17th cent. cachalut, apparently meaning, ‘toothed’, from a Romanic word for ‘tooth’ or ‘grinder’, in Gascon cachau, Carcassone caichal, Catalan caxal, Provençal dialects caissal, caysal. The first notice of the word in English writers is quoted from the French of Anderson's Histoire Naturelle de Island, etc. (Hamburg 1746). The word is now found in most European languages, as German kachalot, Danish kaskelot, Swedish kaselot, Dutch kazilot, etc. (In Miscellanea Curiosa, 1670 (Frankfort, and Leipzig 1681), observation cxxxvi. (p. 266) treats of this whale ‘qui in Bayonna, Byaris, et in insula S. Johannis de Luca, et in locis ubi capitur Cachalut, latine Orca dicitur’.) A different derivation is proposed by Zobler, Zeitsch. f. Rom. Philol. IV. 176, whereby he would connect it with Spanish cachuelo, which derives < Latin catulus. A genus of whales, belonging to the family Catodontidæ, distinguished by the presence of teeth in the lower jaw. The Common Cachalot, or Sperm Whale, which yields spermaceti, grows to the length of 70 feet, and has a head nearly one-half of the length of the body; it occurs in all seas, but its home is the Pacific Ocean. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Physeteridae > genus Physeter (sperm whale) trumpa1625 spermaceti whale1658 pot-walfish1694 parmacety1705 pot-fish1744 cachalot1747 physeter1753 sperm whale1839 sperm1840 macrocephalus1851 greyhead1859 physeteroid1876 1747 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 174/2 The figure which M. Anderson gives us of the cachelot..has the air of a monster. 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 45 This genus..the French call Cachalot, a name we have adopted. 1832 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 2) II. 279 A herd of Cachalots, upwards of one hundred in number, were found stranded at Kairston, Orkney. 1833 C. Bell Hand (1834) 298 The physeter or cachelot whale..has a very large head and is remarkable for having teeth. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §213. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1747
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