campionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Likely from Middle English campion, a variant of champioun; see champion. In classical times, the rose campion was fitted in garlands used to crown victors.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæmpiən/

名詞

campion (複数形 campions)

1. Some flowering plants of the genus Lychnis.
2. Any flowering plant of the genus Silene.
   • 1918, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “[Poem 63]”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, OCLC 5093462, stanza 4, page 83:

     Then over his turnèd temples—here— / Was a rose, or, failing that, / Rough-Robin or five-lipped campion clear / For a beauty-bow to his hat, […]

派生語

• alpine campion (Viscaria alpina, syn. Lychnis alpina)
• bladder campion (Silene vulgaris)
• evening campion (Silene latifolia subsp. alba, syn. Lychnis alba)
• meadow campion (Lychnis flos-cuculi)
• morning campion (Silene dioica)
• moss campion (Silene acaulis)
• red campion (Silene dioica; Lychnis sect. Agrostemma)
• rose campion (Silene coronaria, syn. Lychnis coronaria)
• sea campion (Silene vulgaris subsp. vulgaris, Silene uniflora subsp. uniflora, syn. (for both, different authors) Silene maritima)
• snowy campion (Silene nivea)
• starry campion (Silene stellata)
• white campion (Silene latifolia subsp. alba, syn. Lychnis alba)

参照

• “campion”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

アナグラム

• panomic