echinusとは

名詞

echinus (複数形 echinuses または echini)

1. A sea urchin.
2. (architecture) The rounded moulding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve.
3. (architecture) The quarter-round moulding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style.
4. (architecture) The egg-and-anchor or egg-and-dart moulding, because often identified with the Roman Doric capital.

Latin

echīnus (1, sea urchin)

echīnus (2, hedgehog)

語源

From Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eˈkʰiː.nus/, [ɛˈkʰiː.nʊs]

名詞

echīnus m (genitive echīnī); second declension

1. a sea urchin, especially the edible kind
2. a hedgehog
3. the prickly husk of a chestnut
4. a rinsing bowl, especially of copper
5. (architecture) an ornament under the chapiter of an Ionic or Doric column

Inflection

Second declension.

同意語

• (hedgehog): ērināceus

派生語

• echīnātus
• echīnomētrae

派生した語

• Translingual: Echinus

参照

• echinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• echinus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• echinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• echinus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• echinus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• echinus in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• echinus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin