contagiumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

contagium (複数形 contagia)

1. (archaic) contagion; contagious matter [c. 1870-1910]
   • 1865, John Simon, "Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Cattle Plague Commissioners", Report on the Origin, Propagation, Nature, and Treatment of the Cattle Plague (1866), page 42

     And its escape [from certain diseases] is an approximative proof that, at least for those ten years, no contagium of measles, “nor any contagium of scarlet fever, nor any contagium of small-pox, had arisen spontaneously" within its limits.

   • 1901 December 20, H. Watkins-Pitchford, “Rinderpest”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎^[1], volume 4, number 21, pages 641-642:

     That this in fact was the case was ascertained by Dr. Edington, who, by adding a large percentage (33 per cent.) of glycerine to the gall taken from a rinderpest beast, was able to show that by such contact the infective power of bile was as effectually destroyed as was the contagium of blood.

Latin

語源

con- +‎ *tagium, from the base of tango (“I touch”).

名詞

contāgium n (genitive contāgiī または contāgī); second declension

1. contact, touching

   Synonyms: contāctus, contagiō

2. contagion

   Synonyms: contāctus, contāminātiō

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

関連する語

• contagiō
• contingō

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