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
- letundan – obsolete
- turdan
Etymology
Named after French missionary Claude Letondal who introduced the banana to the Philippines from India. Compare Cebuano latundan / alitundan / tundan and Aklanon kalatunday.
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: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 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
- Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
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