byssusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈbɪsəs/
• 韻: -ɪsəs

名詞

byssus (usually uncountable, plural byssi or byssuses)

1. The long fine silky filaments excreted by several mollusks (particularly Pinna nobilis) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed, and from which sea silk is manufactured.
2. Sea silk manufactured from these filaments.
3. (mycology) The stipe or stem of some fungi which are particularly thin and thread-like.

関連する語

参照

• The Compact edition of the Oxford English dictionary: complete text reproduced micrographically and Supplement, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1987
• Webster's Third New International Dictionary (Unabridged), G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976

語源

From Ancient Greek βῠ́σσος (bŭ́ssos, “flax; flax cotton”), from a Semitic source cognate to Hebrew בּוּץ (būṣ, “byssus”) and Aramaic בּוּצָא (būṣā, “byssus”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈbys.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈbis.sus]

名詞

byssus f (genitive byssī); second declension

1. byssus or sea silk

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生した語

• Translingual: Byssus

参照

• “byssus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "byssus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “byssus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “byssus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin