ambilevousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• ambilævous^[1] (very まれに)
• ambilaevous

語源

First attested in English in 1646^[2]: from Latin ambilaevus (ambi- (“both”) + laevus (“left”))^[3], a calque of Ancient Greek ἀμφαρίστερος (ampharísteros, “with two left hands, awkward, clumsy”)^[4] from ἀμφί (amphí, “on both sides”) + ἀριστερός (aristerós, “left”).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˌæmbɪˈliːvəs/^[5]

形容詞

ambilevous (comparative more ambilevous, superlative most ambilevous)

1. (rare)^[2][5] Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     Again, Some are Ἀμφαριστεροὶ as Galen hath expreſſed : that is, Ambilevous or left-handed on both ſides; ſuch as with agility and vigour have not the uſe of either : who are not gymnaſtically compoſed : nor actively uſe thoſe parts. Now in theſe there is no right hand : of this conſtitution are many women, and ſome men, who though they accuſtome themſelves unto either hand, do dexterouſly make uſe of neither.

   • 1953, The Pediatric Clinics of North America‎^[1], W.B. Saunders Co., page 607:

     Whereas the ambidextrous person is regarded as one who is capable of using both hands with equal dexterity, there are others, referred to as ambilevous, who use both hands equally awkwardly.

   • 1960, Harry Bakwin and Ruth Mae Morris Bakwin, Clinical Management of Behavior Disorders in Children‎^[2], Saunders, page 330:

     The ambilevous (the opposite of ambidextrous) child is unable to use either hand more skillfully than the other, but is equally awkward in the use of each.

   • 1998, Yoav Ariel, Shlomo Biderman, and Ornan Rotem, Relativism and Beyond‎^[3], →ISBN, page 262:

     I as a right-handed person do not have the option of becoming genuinely ambidextrous, literally one with ‘two right hands’. And I surely must guard against sinking into one is who is doubly left-handed, or ambilevous. (We may notice the prejudice uncovered by etymology.) But I can, by will and practice, lessen the native inferiority of my weaker side.

同意語

• ambisinistrous^[6]

反意語

• ambidextrous

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