calamistrumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin calamistrum (“a curling-iron”).

発音

• IPA: /kæləˈmɪstɹəm/

名詞

calamistrum (plural calamistra)

1. (zoology) A comb-like structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used to curl certain fibres in the construction of their webs.

語源

Apparently from Ancient Greek καλάμιστρος (kalámistros, “stipula”), from κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed”), referring to the tubular shape of the heated curling irons. Perhaps influenced by Latin instrumental suffix -trum. For sense two, compare cincinnus.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ka.ɫaˈmɪs.trũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ka.laˈmis.t̪rum]

名詞

calamistrum n (genitive calamistrī); second declension

1. curling iron, curling tongs
2. (figuratively) an oratorical ornament too artificial, excessive or elaborate

   Synonym: cincinnus

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生語

• calamistrātus

派生した語

• Portuguese: calamistro

参照

• "calamistrum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “calamistrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “calamistrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin