Pollenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Learned borrowing from Latin pollen (“fine flour”), used by Carl Linnaeus in the 18th century to describe the spores produced in the anthers of flowers.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɒlən/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈpɑlən/
• 韻: -ɒlən
• ハイフネーション: pol‧len

名詞

pollen (usually uncountable, plural pollens)

1. A fine, granular substance produced in flowers.
2. (botany) Pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants. [from 1723]
   • 2013 May–June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

     In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.

3. (obsolete) Fine powder in general, fine flour. [from 1523]
   • 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles‎, translation of original by Jean Froissart:

     and ther was good wyne of Gascoyne, […] as well of pollen, as of other vitailes

   • 1796, C. Lorimer, A Letter to the Honourable the Corn Commitee, on the Importation of Rough Rice, as a Supplement to Wheat Flour, London: […] T[homas] Becket, […], →OCLC, page 5:

     The bran, pollen and gurgions of this grain will be profitable to the miller; […]

派生語

関連する語

• pollinate

動詞

pollen (third-person singular simple present pollens, present participle pollening, simple past and past participle pollened)

1. (transitive, poetic) To cover with, or as if with, pollen.

参考

• palyno-
• palynologic
• palynological
• palynologist
• palynology

参照

語源

Probably from a Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”); compare with Ancient Greek πάλη (pálē, “the finest meal; any fine dust”), as well as pulvis (though De Vaan is skeptical of the latter link).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈpɔl.lɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈpɔl.len]

名詞

pollen n (genitive pollinis); third declension

1. (literally) flour, especially fine flour, milldust
2. (transferred sense) the (very) fine powder or dust of other things

   pollen piperis ― ground pepper (literally, “powder of pepper”)

   pollen tūris ― incense powder

   aliquid in pollen tundere ― to grind something into powder

語形変化

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

同意語

• (transferred sense: fine powder or dust): pulvis

派生語

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “pollen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pollen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pollĕn”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,195/1.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “pollen”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 131
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “pŏllen”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 497