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
• liturdan — dialectal, Santa Cruz Marinduque
• turdan

Etymology

Named after French missionary Claude-François 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.t̪ʊn̪ˈd̪an̪]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: la‧tun‧dan

Noun

latundán (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜆᜓᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔) (botany)

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

See also

• lakatan
• saging

Further reading

• “latundan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Ambeth R. Ocampo (29 July 2022), “Traces of France in PH”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 October 2025
• 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, y coordinado por el P. Juan de Noceda y el P. Pedro de Sanlucar. Ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.‎^[4] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.
• Merrill, Elmer Drew (1903), A Dictionary of the Plant Names of the Philippine Islands‎^[5], Bureau of public printing
• Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) (1837), Flora de Filipinas: según el sistema sexual de Linneo (in Spanish), en la imprenta de Sto. Thomas, por Candido Lopez, page 250