rictusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪk.təs/, /ˈɹɪk.tʊs/

名詞

rictus (複数形 rictus または rictuses)

1. A bird's gaping mouth.
2. The throat of a calyx.
3. Any open-mouthed expression.

   His face was a rictus of sheer delight.

   • 1899, Victor Hugo, Paul Maurice, transl., The Memoirs of Victor Hugo:

     Amid a thick, bristling beard, a nose like an owl's beak and a mouth whose corners were drawn by a wild-beast-like rictus were just discernible.

   • 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:

     A rictus of cruel malignity lit up greyly their old bony faces.

   • 1986, “Deaf Forever”, performed by Motörhead:

     Sword and shield, bone and steel / Rictus grin / Deaf forever to the battle's din

   • 1990, “Nothingface”, performed by Voivod:

     Valves plugs pumps to erase/ rictus from my face.

   • 1993, Wolfenstein 3D, scene: after defeating Hitler, level/area: 9:

     The absolute incarnation of evil, Adolf Hitler, lies at your feet in a pool of his own blood. His wrinkled, crimson-splattered visage still strains, a jagged-toothed rictus trying to cry out. Insane even in death. Your lips pinched in bitter victory, you kick his head off his remains and spit on his corpse.

   • 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 56:

     It squinted at her through the hated light, its brow a rictus of pain and fear.

   • 2008, Sean Williams, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, page 81:

     The apprentice watched his Master, pain twisting his features into a rictus.

派生語

• rictal

アナグラム

• Citrus, Curtis, Turcis, citrus, rustic

Latin

語源

From ringor (“I gape, show my teeth, snarl; I am vexed”) +‎ -tus (action noun forming suffix).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈrik.tus/, [ˈrɪkt̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrik.tus/, [ˈrikt̪us]

名詞

rictus m (genitive rictūs); fourth declension

1. the gaping of a mouth, as when laughing or yawning

語形変化

Fourth-declension noun.

派生した語

• English: rictus
• French: rictus
• Portuguese: ricto
• Spanish: rictus

アナグラム

• citrus

参照

• rictus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rictus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rictus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)