carrotとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρῶτον (karôton). Doublet of carotte.

• Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot and stick.
• Verb sense in felt manufacture refers to the orange colour of drying furs.

発音

• (General American) enPR: kâr'ət, IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹ.ət/; enPR: kĕr'ət, IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɹ.ət/
• (Received 発音) enPR: kâr'ət, IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹ.ət/
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• 韻: -æɹət
• 異形同音異義語: carat, karat
• (weak vowel merger) Homophone: caret
• ハイフネーション: car‧rot

名詞

carrot (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 carrots)

1. A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, especially the subspecies sativus in the family Apiaceae.
2. A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).

   carrot colour:  

3. Any motivational tool.

派生語

参考

• Queen Anne's lace

参照

• carrot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

動詞

carrot (三人称単数 現在形 carrots, 現在分詞 carroting, 過去形および過去分詞形 carroted)

1. (transitive) To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture.

派生語

• carroting

アナグラム

• trocar