convolvulusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin convolvulus (“bindweed; caterpillar”), from convolvō (“convolve”).

名詞

convolvulus (複数形 convolvuluses または convolvuli)

1. (botany) Any of several plants, of the genus Convolvulus, found in temperate climates, having small trumpet-shaped flowers.
   • 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 318:

     Toward it the torrent raced furiously, fed from above, where, down the left bank, transformed abruptly into a great wall of vegetation, water was spouting into the stream through thickets festooned with convolvuli on a higher level than the topmost trees of the jungle.

   • 1994, Edmund Swinglehurst, The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites: A Compilation of Works from the Bridgeman Art Library, Parragon Book Service Limited, →ISBN, “Stages of Cruelty · 1856–90 · Ford Madox Brown”, page 38/2:

     In this painting he uses the lovers for his narrative and makes his symbolic points with the convolvulus, signifying entanglements, climbing up the steps.

2. (zoology) A species of hawkmoth, Agrius convolvuli.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 51,

     Already the convolvulus moth was spinning over the flowers.

同意語

• bindweed
• morning glory

Latin

別の表記

• convolvolus

語源

convolvō +‎ -ulus

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈu̯ol.u̯u.lus/, [kɔnˈu̯ɔɫ̪u̯ʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈvol.vu.lus/, [koɱˈvɔlvulus]

名詞

convolvulus m (genitive convolvulī); second declension

1. the caterpillar of the vine moth (Eupoecilia ambiguella), which wraps itself up in the leaves of the vine
2. larger bindweed, hedge bindweed, Rutland beauty, bugle vine, heavenly trumpets, bellbind, granny-pop-out-of-bed (Calystegia sepium)
3. (Medieval Latin) colic (severe pains that grip the abdomen または the disease that causes such pains)

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

同意語

• (colic): cōlica, dolor alvī (字義どおりに “pain of the bowels”)

派生した語

• Translingual: Convolvulus (generic name)
• English: convolvulus
• Italian: convolvolo
• Portuguese: convólvulo
• Spanish: convólvulo

参照

• “convolvŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• convolvulus 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)
• convolvŭlus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 427/2
• “conuoluolus” on page 441/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)