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
Etymology
Named after French missionary Claude Letondal who introduced the banana to the Philippines from India. Compare Aklanon kalatunday, Kinaray-a arikundal, Cebuano latundan / alitundan / tundan.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /latunˈdan/ [lɐ.t̪ʊn̪ˈd̪an̪]
- Rhymes: -an
- Syllabification: la‧tun‧dan
Noun
latundán (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜆᜓᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔) (botany)
- latundan banana (Musa acuminata × Musa balbisiana, triploid hybrid banana cultivar from the Philippines)
See also
Further reading
- “latundan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Ambeth R. Ocampo (29 July 2022) “Traces of France in PH”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer[1]
- The Philippine Journal of Science[2], Philippines Bureau of Science, 1915, page 397
- Ramón V. Valmayor (2002) The Wild and Cultivated Bananas of the Philippines[3], 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[4] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- Merrill, Elmer Drew (1903) A Dictionary of the Plant Names of the Philippine Islands[5], Bureau of public printing