forcepsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Learned borrowing from Latin forceps.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːsɛps/, /ˈfɔːsəps/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfoɹsɛps/
• (without the horse–hoarse merger, rhotic) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ(ː)ɹsɛps/

名詞

forceps (複数形 forceps または forcipes または forcepses)

1. An instrument used in surgery or medical procedures for grasping and holding objects, similar to tongs or pincers.

使用する際の注意点

Although the Latin word is singular, this word is often treated as a plurale tantum by analogy with names for similar items such as tongs and tweezers: this forceps or these forceps (または even pair of forceps).

同意語

• pair of forceps

下位語

• serrefine

派生語

Further reading

• forceps on Wikipedia.

Latin

語源

From Proto-Italic *formokaps through syncope. Surface etymology: from formus (“warm”) +‎ -ceps (“taker”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfor.keps/, [ˈfɔrkɛps̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfor.t͡ʃeps/, [ˈfɔrt͡ʃeps]

名詞

forceps m (genitive forcipis); third declension

1. (pair of) tongs, pincers, forceps

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

• forcipātus

派生した語

参照

• “forceps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “forceps”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• forceps 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)
• forceps in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “forceps”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “forceps”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin