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 colour:  

   • 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

参考

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

アナグラム

• Laurence, crenulae