amaracusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

amaracus (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Marjoram.
   • 1842, Tennyson, “Oenone”, in The Lady of Shallot and other poems:

     Then to the bower they came, / Naked they came to that smooth-swarded bower, / And at their feet the crocus brake like fire, / Violet, amaracus, and asphodel, / Lotos and lilies: and a wind arose, / And overhead the wandering ivy and vine, / This way and that, in many a wild festoon / Ran riot, garlanding the gnarled boughs / With bunch and berry and flower thro' and thro'.

Further reading

• “amaracus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “amaracus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• caramusa

語源

From Ancient Greek ἀμάρακος (amárakos), ἀμάρακον (amárakon). Possible doublet of marathrum, marum, marrubium, and maiōrana.

名詞

amāracus m (genitive amāracī); second declension

1. marjoram (Origanum majorana)

使用する際の注意点

• Identification with Origanum majorana is uncertain, but O. m. var tenuifolium, native to Cyprus fits Pliny's description especially well. Other species of Origanum, such as O. onites, are possible.

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生語

• (Medieval Latin): maiorana, majorana

派生した語

• Italian: merco
• → Catalan: amàrac (learned)

参照

• “amaracus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “amaracus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• amaracus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “amaracus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers