citrusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin citrus (“citron tree, thuja”), probably via Etruscan from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros); compare Middle English citurtre, cytyr tre.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪtɹəs/

名詞

citrus (plural citruses or (まれに) citrusses or (まれに) citri)

1. Any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Citrus in the family Rutaceae.
2. The fruit of such plants, generally spherical, oblate, or prolate, consisting of an outer glandular skin (called zest), an inner white skin (called pith または albedo), and generally between 8 and 16 sectors filled with pulp consisting of cells with one end attached to the inner skin. Citrus fruits include orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and citron.

上位語

• (fruit): fruit

派生語

• citral
• citrange
• citrantin
• citric acid
• citropten
• citrusin
• Citrus County
• citrus greening
• citrus fruit

関連する語

• citrous

形容詞

citrus (not generally comparable, comparative more citrus, superlative most citrus)

1. Of, relating to, or similar to citrus plants or fruit.
   • 2001, Robin Shepard, Wisconsin's Best Breweries and Brewpubs, page 61:

     Its nose is very citrus and fruity.

   • 2007, Eric Martin, The Virgin's Guide to Mexico: A Novel, page 176:

     […] and his cologne was more citrus than the usual leatherwood floating in formaldehyde.

   • 2008, Chandler Burr, The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York:

     The problem with AG2 is that it's too citrus.

同意語

• citrous

アナグラム

• Curtis, Turcis, rictus, rustic

Latin

語源

Probably via Etruscan from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈki.trus/, [ˈkɪt̪rʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.trus/, [ˈt͡ʃiːt̪rus]

名詞

citrus f (genitive citrī); second declension

1. citron tree
2. thuja

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生した語

• Translingual: Citrus
• French: citron
• → English: citrine, citron, citrus
• Italian: cedro
• Piedmontese: sitron

参照

• “citrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• citrus 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)

アナグラム

• rictus