Velamenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

velamen (plural velamens or velamina)

1. (anatomy) A covering membrane or velum
2. (botany) A spongy, usually pale, multiseriate epidermis (i.e. consisting of multiple layers of cells) covering the roots of some kinds of plants, especially plant species with an epiphytic or semi-epiphytic habit. Examples include various orchid and Clivia species

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [weːˈɫaː.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [veˈlaː.men]

名詞

vēlāmen n (genitive vēlāminis); third declension

1. cover, covering
2. clothing, robe, garment

   Synonyms: vestis, amictus

3. veil

語形変化

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

派生した語

• >? Italian: velame
• → English: velamen
• → Spanish: velamen

参照

• “velamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “velamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "velamen", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “velamen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “velamen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers