ホッチキス
Japanese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ホチキス (hochikisu)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English Hotchkiss, after the E. H. Hotchkiss Company of Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S., an early and prominent manufacturer of staplers.
Various Japanese sources[1][2][3][4] erroneously derive this from the surname of Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, inventor of a kind of machine gun. However, research by Jim Breen instead derives this from the surname of Eli Hubbell Hotchkiss.[5]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ホッチキス • (hotchikisu)
- a stapler (device which binds together paper)
Synonyms
[edit]- ステープラー (sutēpurā)
Descendants
[edit]- Korean: 호치키스 (hochikiseu)
References
[edit]- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ “ホッチキス”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984
- ^ “ホッチキス”, in 改訂新版 世界大百科事典 (Kaitei Shinpan Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Revised Edition”)[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 2007, →ISBN
- ^ 2017, Jim Breen, “The Strange Tale of the Hotchkiss”, retrieved 2018 July 16
- ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN