aestiferousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin aestus (“heat, tide”) +‎ -ferous (“bearing, bringing”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĕstĭʹfĕrŭs, IPA: /ɛsˈtɪfɛɹʌs/
• 韻: -ɪfəɹəs

形容詞

aestiferous (comparative more aestiferous, superlative most aestiferous)

1. (obsolete, not comparable) As the tide, turbulent; ebbing and flowing.
   • 1859: John D. Bryant, M. D., Redemption, a Poem, page 241 (John Penington & Son)

     Thus they, estiferous, the hollow sphere
     Within, rack’d, and raged against the Highest.

2. (comparable, chiefly figurative) Producing much (aestival) heat.
   • 1979, J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change, Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 148, →ISBN:

     Moreover, if the analogy to political revolution teaches anything at all, its instruction would seem to be that revolution is a wasteful and excessively estiferous process.

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