addaxとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French addax, from Arabic أبو عدس (ʔabū ʕadas, literally “father of the lentil”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈa.daks/

名詞

addax (plural addaxes or addax)

1. A large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus) with long, corkscrewing horns which lives in the desert. [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: screwhorn antelope, white antelope

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, page 53:

     In her hand, the haunch of an addax, still hissing from the spit.

参考

• pygarg

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈad.daks/, [ˈäd̪ːäks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈad.daks/, [ˈäd̪ːäks]

名詞

addax m (genitive addacis); third declension

1. addax

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

同意語

• pȳgargus

参照

• “addax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• addax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.