Mandragoraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Medieval Latin mandragora, from Latin mandragorās.

発音

• IPA: /ˌmænˈdɹæɡ.ə.ɹə/

名詞

mandragora (countable and uncountable, plural mandragoras)

1. Any of various plants of the genus Mandragora.

   Synonym: mandrake

2. The root of such a plant, traditionally used as a narcotic.

   Synonym: mandrake

   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXVIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 56:

     —though she did not know whether her supposed rival was dead or alive, whether the complaints she at once pitied and resented were those which "poppy and mandragora" might medicine, or "those written troubles of the brain" which were incapable of cure, she contrived to make up for herself a draught of most terrible infliction.

   • 1933 January 30, H.L. Mencken, “The Coolidge Mystery”, in H.L. Mencken On Politics‎, published 1996, →ISBN, page 136:

     The worst fodder for a President is not poppy and mandragora, but strychnine and adrenalin.

3. (folklore) A kind of tiny supernatural being, sometimes described as a demon.

   Synonym: mandrake

派生語

名詞

mandragora m

1. mandrake

派生した語

• English: mandrake

参照

• "mandragora", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)