digitalisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /dɪdʒɪˈtɑːlɪs/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /dɪd͡ʒɪˈtælɪs/, /dɪd͡ʒɪˈteɪlɪs/

名詞

digitalis (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 digitalises)

1. Any plant of the genus Digitalis (herbaceous plants of the Plantaginaceae family, including the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea).
   • 1834, James Moore, Gardens of the Misses Garnier in The Gardener’s Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, volume 19 (1834), page 210

     11. Delphiniums and digitalises.

   • 1836, Joseph Harrison, The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists’ Magazine, volume 4, page 133:

     At the Medico-Botanical Society on Tuesday, Dr. Morries, made some some observations on opium, digitales, conium, and hyoscyamus, and exhibited specimens of oils obtained from the latter plants.

   • 1903, American Florist, volume 19, page 555:

     Polemoniums of various species, aubretias, dwarf phloxes, delphiniums, digitalises, gerums, erigerons and a number of other things have bloomed a second time […]

2. (medicine) A medical extract of Digitalis purpurea prescribed for heart failure etc.
   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 188:

     ‘You very nearly died. I had to give you digitalis three times.’

   • 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2001, p. 25:

     The ancient remedy digitalis, extracted from the foxglove plant, for example, acts by blocking sodium channels in heart muscle, preventing potentially dangerous overactivity.

関連する語

• digitalize

参照

• “digitalis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Latin

語源

digitus (“finger, toe”) +‎ -ālis.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /di.ɡiˈtaː.lis/, [d̪ɪɡɪˈt̪äːlʲɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.d͡ʒiˈta.lis/, [d̪id͡ʒiˈt̪äːlis]

形容詞

digitālis (neuter digitāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. Of or belonging to the finger

語形変化

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

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