latundan
Cebuano
Alternative forms
- kantundan
- tundan
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: la‧tun‧dan
Noun
latundan
- a triploid hybrid banana cultivar from the Philippines (Musa acuminata × Musa balbisiana)
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- katundal — dialectal, Bataan, Teresa-Morong
- lantundal, letundan — obsolete
- turdan
Etymology
Named after French missionary Claude Letondal who introduced the banana to the Philippines from India. Compare Aklanon kalatunday, Kinaray-a rikundal, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) / alitundan / tundan.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: la‧tun‧dan
- IPA(key): /latunˈdan/, [lɐ.tʊnˈdan]
Noun
latundán (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜆᜓᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔) (botany)
- latundan banana (triploid hybrid banana cultivar from the Philippines)
Further reading
- “latundan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Ambeth R. Ocampo (July 29, 2022), “Traces of France in PH”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer
- The Philippine Journal of Science, Philippines Bureau of Science, 1915, page 397
- Ramón V. Valmayor (2002) The Wild and Cultivated Bananas of the Philippines, Philippine Agriculture and Resources Research Foundation (PARRFI), →ISBN
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- Merrill, Elmer Drew (1903) A Dictionary of the Plant Names of the Philippine Islands, Bureau of public printing
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