cerebrumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ɹɪb.ɹəm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˈɹi.bɹəm/, /ˈsɛɹ.əb.ɹəm/
• 韻: -ɛɹɪbɹəm, -iːbɹəm

名詞

cerebrum (複数形 cerebra または cerebrums)

1. (neuroanatomy) The principal and most anterior part of the brain in vertebrates, which is located in the front area of the skull and divided into two hemispheres, left and right, separated by a fissure. In humans it is the largest part of the brain and is responsible for the integration of complex sensory functions and the initiation and coordination of voluntary activity, and the higher mental functions such as consciousness, thought, reason, emotion, and memory.

   Synonym: telencephalon

   Holonym: forebrain

   Hyponyms: cerebral hemisphere, cerebral cortex

派生語

関連する語

• cerebellum

参照

• “cerebrum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cerebrum”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

アナグラム

• cumberer

Latin

語源

From Proto-Italic *kerazrom, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-. Compare Ancient Greek κᾰ́ρᾱ (kárā, “a head, face”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈke.re.brum/, [ˈkɛrɛbrʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.re.brum/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːrebrum]

名詞

cerebrum n (genitive cerebrī); second declension

1. a brain
   • ca. 60 BCE, Titus Lucretius Carus, De Rerum Natura , Book 6, Lines 802-3:

     carbonumque gravis vis atque odor insinuatur / quam facile in cerebrum, nisi aqua praecepimus ante!

     And how the heavy fumes of charcoal wind their way / Readily into the brain, unless beforehand of water we've drunk!

   1. (metonymically) understanding; anger, choler
2. (anatomy) a skull
3. (botany) an upper pith

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生語

• cerebellum (diminutive)
• cerebrālis (adjective)
• cerebrōsus (adjective)
• excerebrō (verb)

派生した語

参照

• “cerebrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cerebrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cerebrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cerebrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• cerebrum in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911