asparagusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Medieval Latin asparagus, sparagus, from Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος (aspáragos), variant of ἀσφάραγος (aspháragos). Displaced 古期英語 eorþnafola.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /əˈspɛɹ.ə.ɡəs/, /əˈspæɹ.ə.ɡəs/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /əˈspæɹ.ə.ɡəs/

名詞

asparagus (複数形 asparagus または asparaguses または asparagusses または asparagi)

1. Any of various perennial plants of the genus Asparagus having leaflike stems, scalelike leaves, and small flowers.

   Synonyms: sparrowgrass, sparagus, sparagrass

2. The young shoots of Asparagus officinalis eaten as a vegetable.
3. (color) A green colour, like that of an asparagus.

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派生語

Further reading

• asparagus on Wikipedia.
• Asparagus on Wikispecies.
• asparagus at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

語源

Also found in Medieval Latin. From Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος (aspáragos), variant of ἀσφάραγος (aspháragos).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /asˈpa.ra.ɡus/, [äs̠ˈpäräɡʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /asˈpa.ra.ɡus/, [äsˈpäːräɡus]

名詞

asparagus m (genitive asparagī); second declension

1. asparagus; shoot, sprout-like asparagus, samphire
   • c. 160 BC, Marcus Porcius Cato, De agri cultura‎^[1], archived from the original on 2022-04-03, chapter 161:

     Deinde fossulās facitō, quō rādīcēs asparagī dēmittās.

     Then make little ditches to drop the asparagus roots into.

   • 121 AD, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, “Divus Augustus”, in De Vita Caesarum, chapter 87:

     Cōtīdiānō sermōne quaedam frequenter et nōtābilius ūsurpāsse eum [Augustum], litterae ipsius autographae ostendunt, in quibus [...] ad exprimendam festīnātae reī vēlōcitātem, celerius quam asparagī cocuntur; [...]

     That in daily conversation he [Augustus] often and famously used certain [expressions], his own handwritten letters show; among these, [...] to express the speed of a thing done quickly, faster than asparaguses are cooked; [...]

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• “asparagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “asparagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• asparagus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette