crocusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹəʊ.kəs/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹoʊ.kəs/
• 韻: -əʊkəs

語源 1

Borrowed from Latin crocus, from Ancient Greek κρόκος (krókos, “crocus”), from an ancient Semitic language.

名詞

crocus (複数形 crocuses または croci または crocus)

1. A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 128:

     Nothing is more short-lived than the erection; like the crocus of spring, it is there for a moment, and then it is gone; one moment the penis is small, soft, and insignificant, and then in the next it is hard, rigid, and three and four times its previous size.

2. Any of various similar flowering plants, such as the autumn crocus and prairie crocus.
3. (chemistry, obsolete) A deep yellow powder, the oxide of some metal (especially iron), calcined to a red or deep yellow colour.
4. (obsolete, slang) A fraudulent doctor; a quack.

派生語

語源 2

(This etymology is missing または incomplete. Please add to it, または discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From croker?”)

名詞

crocus (uncountable)

1. (Jamaica, Trinidad かつ Tobago) Burlap.

   a crocus bag

アナグラム

• occurs, succor

Latin

別の表記

• crocum

語源

From Ancient Greek κρόκος (krókos, “crocus”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.kus/, [ˈkrɔkʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.kus/, [ˈkrɔːkus]

名詞

crocus m (genitive crocī); second declension

1. crocus, saffron

使用する際の注意点

Most often, the masculine crocus was used to refer to the plant, while the neuter crocum was used for saffron gathered from the plant. However, this distinction is not universally observed, and the word crocus may refer either to the crocus plant or to saffron taken from the plant.

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生した語

• Old Occitan: gròc, gruèc
  • Catalan: groc
    • →? English: grog
    • → Gallurese: grogu
    • → Sardinian: grogu
    • → Sassarese: grogu
  • Occitan: cròc
• Galician: croque
• Italian: croco
• → Catalan: crocus
• → Czech: krokus
• → Dutch: krokus
• → English: crocus
• → Finnish: krookus
• → French: crocus
• → German: Krokus
• → Icelandic: krókus
• → Norwegian: krokus
• → Polish: krokus
• → Portuguese: croco
• → Russian: кро́кус (krókus)
• → Slovene: krokus
• → Spanish: croco
• → Swedish: krokus
• → Translingual: Crocus

参照

• crocus 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)
• “crocus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “crocus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray