Arbutusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From translingual Arbutus, from Latin arbutus.

名詞

arbutus (複数形 arbutuses または arbuti)

1. Any flowering plant in the genus Arbutus: the strawberry tree.
   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter X, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     Many nights, though autumnal mists were spread around, I passed under an ilex - many times I have supped on arbutus berries and chestnuts, making a fire, gypsy-like, on the ground […]

2. Epigaea repens, the mayflower, the trailing arbutus.
   • 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:

     Ah, who is he,—on whom young men and maidens look with pitying eye? to whom the old man lifts his hat, and little children cease from their sports as he passes, and quietly slip the innocent daisy, or the sweet-scented arbutus into his hand, which they have culled from the wide commons, where, they have been told, the good Sea-flower loved to stray.

3. Arbute; the wood of the strawberry tree.

参照

• arbutus on Wikipedia.
• Arbutus on Wikispecies.

アナグラム

• Subartu

Latin

語源

Unknown. Lewis and Short (1879) suggests it is related to arbor (“tree”) (compare arbustus (“planted with trees, wooded”)), but Ernout and Meillet (1985) recognizes no etymology,^[1] and Schrijver (1991) says it lacks a reliable etymology.^[2]

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.bu.tus/, [ˈärbʊt̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.bu.tus/, [ˈärbut̪us]

名詞

arbutus f (genitive arbutī); second declension

1. strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)

   Synonym: unedō

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生語

• arbuteus
• arbutum

派生した語

• Galician: érbedo, albedro
• Occitan: arboça, arboç
  • → French: arbouse, arbousier
• Old Spanish: alborco
  • Spanish: aborto, borto
• Portuguese: êrvedo

参照

Further reading

• “arbutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “arbutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arbutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “arbutus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Genaust, Helmut (1996), “Árbutus”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3^rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, page 73a