can thusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin canthus (“corner of the eye”), from Ancient Greek κανθός (kanthós, “corner of the eye”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈkænθəs/

名詞

canthus (plural canthi or canthuses)

1. (anatomy) Either corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet.
   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:

     the lowly East with its deer head (dark trace of long tear at inner canthus

   • 2004, Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 263:

     I could sit here while the milk makes white shadows in its glass, while darkness mutters behind the window, and wait for a tear to show itself in the creased canthus of your eye.

   • 2015 August 26, “Effects of Relaxing Music on Mental Fatigue Induced by a Continuous Performance Task: Behavioral and ERPs Evidence”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     A ground electrode located between Fpz and Fz. The electro-oculogram (EOG) was recorded bipolarly from two electrodes placed at the outer canthi of the right eye and below the left eye.

派生語

関連する語

- canthoplasty

• endocanthion
• epicanthus
• exocanthion (ectocanthion)

アナグラム

• chaunts, staunch

語源 1

Alternative spelling of cantus. The term for “rim of a wheel” is ultimately of Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *kantos (“corner, rim”). Related to Breton kant (“circle”), Middle Irish cétad (“round seat”), Welsh cant (“rim, edge”), English Kent.

The frequent spelling with -th- is due to the influence of unrelated (or possible Indo-European cognate) Ancient Greek κανθός (kanthós, “corner of the eye”) (see Etymology 2), which after its borrowing became conflated with the Gaulish term for "rim" in Latin.

名詞

canthus m (genitive canthī); second declension

1. the iron ring around a carriage wheel; the tire
2. a wheel

   Synonym: rota

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生した語

語源 2

From Ancient Greek κανθός (kanthós, “corner of the eye”), which became conflated with the above.

名詞

canthus m (genitive canthī); second declension

1. (anatomy) corner of the eye

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

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