chevrotainとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

The kanchil, lesser Malay chevrotain, or lesser mouse-deer (Tragulus kanchil), a species of chevrotain.

Borrowed from French chevrotain, chevrotin (“ruminant of the family Tragulidae”), the diminutive of Old French chevrot (“young goat, kid”), itself a diminutive of chievre (“goat”) (modern French chèvre (“she-goat”)) + -ot (diminutive suffix).^[1] Chievre is derived from Latin capra (“she-goat”), from caper (“billy goat, he-goat”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“billy goat, he-goat”)) + -a (suffix forming feminine counterparts of masculine nouns).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛvɹə(ʊ)teɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛvɹəˌteɪn/
• ハイフネーション: che‧vrot‧ain

名詞

chevrotain (複数形 chevrotains)

1. Any of several small hornless ruminants of the family Tragulidae (genera Hyemoschus, Moschiola, かつ Tragulus), native to tropical rainforests of South and Southeast Asia, and Central and West Africa; a mouse deer.
   • 1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Animals of the Sheep and Goat Kind”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], volume III, new edition, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], OCLC 877622212, page 76:

     To this vve may add the Chevrotin, or little Guinea Deer, vvhich is the leaſt of all cloven-footed quadrupeds, and perhaps the moſt beautiful; its legs, at the ſmalleſt part, are not much thicker than the ſhank of a tobacco-pipe; it is about ſeven inches high, and about tvvelve from the point of the noſe to the inſertion of the tail.

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