flagellumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /fləˈd͡ʒɛləm/
• 韻: -ɛləm

名詞

flagellum (plural flagella or flagellums or (proscribed) flagellae)

1. (biology) In protists, a long, whiplike membrane-enclosed organelle used for locomotion or feeding.
2. (biology) In bacteria, a long, whiplike proteinaceous appendage, used for locomotion.
3. (formal) A whip. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

同意語

• (organelle of protists): cilium
• (whip): whip

派生語

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [fɫaˈɡɛl.lũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [flaˈd͡ʒɛl.lum]

名詞

flagellum n (genitive flagellī); second declension

1. whip, lash, scourge

   Synonyms: verber, flagrum, corium, lōrum, habēna, scutica

   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 25.9–13:

     […] nē lāneum latusculum manūsque mollicellās
     inusta turpiter tibī flagella cōnscribillent […]

     […] so that your soft side and your tender hands
     burning lashes may not shamefully scribble on […]

2. whip for driving animals (riding horses, cattle etc.)
3. tentacle
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.361–372:

     […] utque sub aequoribus dēprēnsum pōlypus hostem
     continet ex omnī dīmissīs parte flagellīs.

     […] and how under the seas the polyp holds fast the captured enemy
     with tentacles dispatched from every side.

4. young branch, shoot
   • c. 4th century CE, Tiberianus, Pervigilium Veneris 5–6:

     Crās amōrum cōpulātrīx inter umbrās arborum
     implicat casās virentēs dē flagellō myrteō.

     Tomorrow the binder of loves amongst the shades of trees
     weaves green cottages from myrtle branches.

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生語

• flagellō

派生した語

Borrowings:

参照

• “flagellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “flagellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "flagellum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “flagellum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.