latundan

Cebuano

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: la‧tun‧dan

Noun

latundan

  1. a triploid hybrid banana cultivar from the Philippines (Musa acuminata × Musa balbisiana)

Tagalog

Alternative forms
  • katundal — dialectal, Bataan, Rizal
  • 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 arikundal, Cebuano latundan / alitundan / tundan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /latunˈdan/, [lɐ.tʊnˈdan]
  • Hyphenation: la‧tun‧dan

Noun

latundán (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜆᜓᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔) (botany)

  1. latundan banana (triploid hybrid banana cultivar from the Philippines)

See also

Further reading
  • “latundan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Ambeth R. Ocampo (2022 July 29) “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), 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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