Thermoiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

thermoi

1. plural of thermos (“unit of measure”)

語源 2

Equivalent to Ancient Greek θερμοί (thermoí), plural of θερμός (thermós, “warm”).

名詞

thermoi

1. (rare) plural of thermos (“flask”)
   • 1922, C.S. Lewis, All my road before me: the diary of C.S. Lewis, 1922-1927, published 1992, page 71:

     After lunch Arthur and I set off with baskets of food and thermoi.

   • 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, page 61:

     I brewed coffee black as a dog, and made it growl and bark with cognac. I took the two big thermoi (?) and kenneled it safely […]

   • 2011, Dornford Yates, The House That Berry Built, page 4:

     […] we select some high place upon which we can eat undisturbed, and we then proceed to lug hampers, cushions, rugs, sunshades, thermoi and two buckets of beer upon ice up a gradient that the Gadarene swine would have refused.

アナグラム

• mohrite, moither, mothier, thiomer