cochleaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒk.li.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊ.kli.ə/, /ˈkɑk.li.ə/

名詞

cochlea (複数形 cochleae または cochleas)

1. (anatomy) The complex, spirally coiled, tapered cavity of the inner ear of higher vertebrates, which contains the organ of Corti and in which sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses.
2. A spiral-shaped shell, especially that of a snail.

派生語

• cochlear

参照

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

Latin

別の表記

• coclea, coclia, cochlia

語源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοχλῐ́ᾱς (kokhlíās, “snail with a spiral shell”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.kʰle.a/, [ˈkɔkʰɫ̪eä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.kle.a/, [ˈkɔːkleä]

名詞

cochlea f (genitive cochleae); first declension

1. snail

   in cochleam ― snail-shaped, in the shape of a spiral

   1. snailshell
2. (metonymically)
   1. spiral (form of a snailshell)
   2. screw of a press
   3. Archimedes' screw, water screw, screw pump (machine for drawing water by raising it)
   4. A kind of revolving door.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

派生語

• coc(h)lear
• coc(h)leārium
• coc(h)leātim
• coc(h)leātus

派生した語

参照

• “cochlea” on page 373 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

• “cochlea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cochlea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cochlea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “cochlea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cochlea”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin