aculeusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈkjuː.lɪ.əs/
• (General American) IPA: /əˈkju.li.əs/

名詞

aculeus (plural aculei)

1. (botany) A sharp spike or other projection growing on a plant, as in some brambles and roses. [from 18th c.]
   • 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 15:

     Many plants, like many animals, are furnished with arms for their protection; these are either aculei, prickles, as in rose and barberry, which are formed from the outer bark of the plant; or spinæ, thorns […] .

2. A sting.

派生語

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [aˈkʊ.ɫe.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [aˈkuː.le.us]

名詞

aculeus m (genitive aculeī); second declension

1. sting, stinger (of an insect)
2. sting (metaphorical)
   • c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 1000 (iambic senarius):

     iam dudum meum ille pectus pungit aculeus, / quid illi negoti fuerit ante aedis meas

     Already does this sting pierce my breast--what business he could have before my house?― The Comedies of Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley. London. G. Bell and Sons. 1912. Perseus

3. spine, thorn

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生語

• aculeātus
• aculeolus
• acūleōnis

派生した語

• → Catalan: aculi
• → English: aculeus (learned)
• ⇒ Old French: aiglant
  • ⇒ French: églantier
• → Old Frisian: etsel, eetsel, eetzil, eitzel, eetzel, ethzel, ezel, ezil, itsil
  • West Frisian: isel, izel
• → Italian: aculeo
• → Portuguese: acúleo
• → Romanian: aculeu
• → Spanish: acúleo

参照

• “ăcūlĕus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aculeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "aculeus", 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)
• “ăcŭlĕus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 26/3.
• “aculeus” on page 31/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)