ＬａＴｅＸの英語

語源

Borrowed from New Latin latex (“clear fluid which is part of a humour または bodily fluid”), a later use of Latin latex (“water; liquid, fluid”). Potentially a borrowing from Ancient Greek λᾰ́τᾰξ (látax, “drop of wine”), reformed by analogy to other nouns in -ex. The semantic shift, however, from drop of wine to water is difficult to explain and may indicate that both words originated from a separate language. Perhaps from the same root as Proto-Celtic *lati- (Old Irish laith (“liquid, beer”), Welsh llad (“beer”)) or Proto-Germanic *ladjō- (Old High German letto (“clay, loam”), Old Norse leðja (“mud, dregs”)) or from a Pre-Greek language.^[1][2][3]

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪtɛks/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪˌtɛks/
• ハイフネーション: la‧tex

名詞

latex (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 latices または latexes)

1. (medicine, archaic, rare) A clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid (esp. plasma かつ lymph)
2. The milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber.
3. An emulsion of rubber in water, used in adhesives and the like.
4. (uncountable) Natural latex rubber, especially non-vulcanized rubber, such as is used in making latex gloves, latex condoms, and latex clothing.

派生語

• latex paint

Further reading

• latex on Wikipedia.

参照

• “latex, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2015.

アナグラム

• -taxel, exalt, taxel

Latin

語源

Potentially a borrowing from Ancient Greek λᾰ́τᾰξ (látax, “drop of wine”), reformed by analogy to other nouns in -ex. The semantic shift, however, from drop of wine to water is difficult to explain and may indicate that both words originated from a separate language. Perhaps from the same root as Proto-Celtic *lati- (Old Irish laith (“liquid, beer”), Welsh llad (“beer”)) or Proto-Germanic *ladjō- (Old High German letto (“clay, loam”), Old Norse leðja (“mud, dregs”)) or from a Pre-Greek language.^[1][2][3]

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.teks/, [ˈɫ̪ät̪ɛks̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.teks/, [ˈläːt̪eks]

名詞

latex m (genitive laticis); third declension

1. (Classical Latin, chiefly poetic) water
2. (Classical Latin, chiefly poetic) liquid, fluid
3. (Classical Latin, chiefly poetic, in the plural) springs
4. (Classical Latin, chiefly poetic) juice, oil, milk
5. (New Latin, medicine) A clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid (esp. plasma かつ lymph)
6. (New Latin, botany) Milky liquid which exudes from a plant when cut and which coagulates on exposure to air.

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• “latex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “latex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• latex 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)
• latex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “latex, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2015.