ceruleanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• cærulean

語源

From Latin caeruleus (“blue”) +‎ -an, from caelum (“sky, heaven”) +‎ -uleus (diminutive suffix).

発音

• IPA^(key): /səˈɹuːli.ən/
• ハイフネーション: ce‧ru‧le‧an

名詞

cerulean (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 ceruleans)

1. (countable and uncountable, color) A greenish-blue color.

   cerulean:  

   • 2014, William H. Gass, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry, page 59:

     For our blues we have the azures and ceruleans, lapis lazulis, the light and dusty, the powder blues, the deeps: royal, sapphire, navy, and marine […]

2. (countable) Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Jamides.

形容詞

cerulean (comparative more cerulean, superlative most cerulean)

A cerulean sky.

1. Sky-blue.
   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter II, in The Understanding Heart:

     As far to the west as Monica could see, her world was a sea of fog, […] . Above it arched a cerulean sky; as the sun climbed to the zenith, […] , the fog gradually took on a bluish tinge.

   • 1995, “The Hearts Filthy Lesson”, in 1. Outside, performed by David Bowie:

     Oh Ramona, if there was only some kind of future / And these cerulean skies / Something in our skies, something in our skies

派生語

• cerulean blue