latundan

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• kantundan
• tundan

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /latunˈdan/ [lɐ.tʊnˈdan]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: la‧tun‧dan

Noun

latundán (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜆᜓᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔) (botany)

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

See also

• lakatan
• saging

 

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^[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