a form of vertical pinball used for gambling, sometimes found in arcades · a slingshot, stonebow · a pistol
eş: スリングショット, カタパルト
köken: Appears from the Taishō period in the early 1900s. Compound of ぱちん (pachin, onomatopoeia for a small hard thing striking something else; compare English kaching) + 子 (-ko, suffix used to form nouns, often diminutive). A pinball-like children's game was first called ガチャンコ (gachanko) of similar derivation, with this more gambling-oriented machine becoming popular from around 1947.
köken: Uncertain, perhaps from German. Compare Old High German schusser (“clay ball (as a toy)”), itself from German Schuß (“shot”). Suffixed with -i to resolve the word-final consonant cluster, compare cetli from Bavarian zettl or German Zettel (/ˈt͡sɛtl̩/) etc.
köken: Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰondʰeh₂, from *bʰendʰ- (“to bind”), whence English bind. Alternatively, a loanword from an unknown language, which may also have been the source of Ancient Greek σφενδόνη (sphendónē, “sling”).
köken: From Dutch katapult, from Middle French catapulte, from Latin catapulta, from Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs).
Etimoloji
Borrowed from Latin frondem (“leafage”). The dated sense is from Classical Latin, and attested since the fifteenth century; the other is from scientific Latin, due to Carolus Linnaeus, and attested since the eighteenth century.