Mothとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mɒθ/
• (General American) enPR: môth, IPA: /mɔθ/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /mɑθ/, enPR: mŏth
• 韻: -ɒθ, -ɔːθ

名詞

moth (plural moths)

1. Any flying insect of the order Lepidoptera not in the superfamily Papilionoidea, most species of which are nocturnal and can be distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
   • 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:

     Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.

2. (figurative) Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.

上位語

• lep
• lepidopter
• lepidopteran

派生語

動詞

moth (third-person singular simple present moths, present participle mothing, simple past and past participle mothed)

1. (intransitive) To hunt for moths.

参考

• butterfly
• caterpillar
• worm

語源 2

From Hindi मोठ (moṭh); see moth bean.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /məʊt/
• (General American) enPR: mōt, IPA: /moʊt/
• 韻: -əʊt
• 異形同音異義語: moat, mote

名詞

moth (countable and uncountable, plural moths)

1. A moth bean plant (Vigna aconitifolia).

同意語

• (Vigna aconitifolia): Turkish gram, mat bean, matki

派生語

• moth bean
• moth flour

参照

• Vigna aconitifolia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vigna aconitifolia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Vigna aconitifolia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• moth at USDA Plants database

語源 3

Alternative form of mot (“woman; wife”), likely under influence from Irish maith (“goodness”).

名詞

moth (plural moths)

1. (Ireland, slang) A girlfriend.

語源 4

名詞

moth (plural moths)

1. Obsolete form of mote.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     So that, dear lords, if I be left behind, / A moth of peace, and he go to the war, / The rites for which I love him are bereft me, / And I a heavy interim shall support / By his dear absence. Let me go with him.

2. (dated) A liver spot, especially an irregular or feathery one.
   • 1895, Good Housekeeping, page 196, ISSN: 0731-3462

     To remove moth patches, wash the spots with a solution of common bicarbonate of soda and water several times a day, until the patches are removed, which will usually be in forty-eight hours.

   • 1999, R. L. Gupta, Directory of Diseases & Cures: In Homoeopathy, →ISBN, page 254:

     Craves for sour things, chalks and eggs, fatty people with light brown spots on the face or liver spots, moth patches on forehead and cheek.

   • 2005, J. D. Patil, Textbook of Applied Materia Medica, →ISBN, page 108:

     There are signs of liver affections as weakness, yellow complexion, liver spots, and moth spot like a saddle over the nose.

アナグラム

• Thom