dromedaryとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

A dromedary (Camelus dromedarius)

From Middle English dromedari, dromedarie (“dromedary; any camel”) [and other forms],^[1] from Old French dromedaire, from Late Latin dromedārius (“kind of camel”), from Latin *dromadārius, from dromas, dromadis (“dromedary”) + -ārius (suffix forming nouns denoting agents of use). Dromas and dromadis are derived from Ancient Greek δρομᾰ́ς (dromás, “running; dromedary”), an ellipsis of δρομὰς κάμηλος (dromàs kámēlos, “running camel”),^[2] from δρόμος (drómos, “race, running; race course, track”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *drem- (“to run”).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɒmɪdəɹi/, /ˈdɹɒmɪdɹi/, /ˈdrʌ-/, /-mə-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɑməˌdɛɹi/
• ハイフネーション: drom‧e‧da‧ry

名詞

dromedary (複数形 dromedaries)

1. The single-humped camel (Camelus dromedarius).

   Synonyms: Arabian camel, dromedarian, dromedary camel, Somali camel

   • [c. 1400, Edmund Brock, editor, Morte Arthure, or The Death of Arthur: Edited from Robert Thornton’s MS. […] (in Middle English), new edition, London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by N[icholas] Trübner & Co., […], published 1871, lines 2940–2941, page 87:

     The duke in his schelde and dreches no lengere, / Drawes hym a dromedarie, with dredfulle knyghtez; [...]

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   • 1630, John Taylor, “Taylors Pastorall, being Both Historicall and Satyricall. […]”, in All the Workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-poet. […], London: […] Iames Boler; […], OCLC 240049364, page 52; republished in The Works of John Taylor the Water Poet […] (Publications of the Spenser Society; no. 2), [Manchester]: […] Spenser Society, 1868, OCLC 8801673, page 536, column 2:

     The Dromedarie, Camell, Horſe, and Aſſe, / For loade and carriage doth a Sheepe ſurpaſſe: [...]

   • 1650, Edward Leigh, “Δρόμος [Drómos]”, in Critica Sacra in Two Parts: The First Containing Observations on All the Radices, or Primitive Hebrevv Words of the Old Testament, in Order Alphabetical. […] The Second Philologicall and Theologicall Observations upon All the Greek Words of the New Testament, in Order Alphabetical. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Thomas Underhill […], OCLC 81535281, page 74, column 2:

     [T]he Dromedarie [...] who is marvellous ſwift, and will run an hundred miles in a day; but the Germanes call a dull and ſlow man a Dromedary, [...]

   • 1651 February 3, John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 24 January 1651 (Julian calendar)]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […] in Two Volumes, volume I, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1819, OCLC 976971842, page 249:

     I went to see a Dromedarie, a very monstrous beaste, much like the Camel but larger.

   • 1694, [Thomas] d’Urfey, The Comical History of Don Quixote. […], part I, London: Printed for Samuel Briscoe, […], OCLC 606102933, Act I, scene ii, page 6:

     Oh, thou Dromedary, thou Founder'd Mule, without a Pack-ſaddle; or what other foul Beaſt ſhall I call thee, for Man thou art not, nor haſt not been to me, Heaven knows the time when? Art not thou aſham'd to ſee me, thou Nincompoop?

   • 1765, [Simon Berington], The Adventures of Sig. Gaudentio di Lucca. […], Glasgow: […] James Knox, […], OCLC 314538135, page 66:

     Here we alighted, drank ourſelves, and gave our dromedaries to drink as much as they would; then we filled all our veſſels, made on purpoſe for carriage, and took in a much greater proportion of water than we had done proviſions.

   • 1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “The Camel, and the Dromedary”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. [...] In Eight Volumes, volume IV, new edition, London: Printed for F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], OCLC 877622212, page 280:

     [T]he camel has two bunches upon his back, whereas the dromedary has but one; the latter alſo, is neither ſo large, nor ſo ſtrong, as the camel. Theſe two races, however, produce with each other, and the mixed breed formed between them is conſidered the beſt, the moſt patient, and the moſt indefatigable of all the kind.

2. Any swift riding camel.
   • 1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: Printed by Rouland Hall, OCLC 557472409, Ieremiáh II:23, folio 306, verso:

     [T]hou art like a ſwift dromedarie, that runneth by his wayes.

使用する際の注意点

The dromedary was formerly known by a number of different binomial names:

• Camelus aegyptiacus Friedrich August Rudolph Kolenati, 1847
• Camelus africanus Gloger, 1841
• Camelus arabicus Charles Desmoulins, 1823
• Camelus dromas Peter Simon Pallas, 1811
• Camelus dromos Kerr, 1792
• Camelus ferus Falk,1786
• Camelus lukius Kolenati, 1847
• Camelus polytrichus Kolenati, 1847
• Camelus turcomanichus Johann Fischer von Waldheim, 1829
• Camelus vulgaris Kolenati, 1847

別の表記

• dromedarie (廃れた用法)

上位語

• camel

等位語

• (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña ^{(Category: en:Camelids)}

派生語

• dromedarian
• dromedarist

参考

• ship of the desert

参照

Further reading

• dromedary on Wikipedia.
• Dromedary in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)