intestineとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛstɪn/, /ɪnˈtɛsˌtiːn/
  • (Canada, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛstaɪn/
  • 韻: -ɛstɪn

語源 1

From Latin intestīnum, neuter of intestīnus (“internal”), as Etymology 2, below.

名詞

intestine (複数形 intestines)

1. (anatomy, often pluralized) The alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs.
2. One of certain subdivisions of this part of the alimentary canal, such as the small or large intestine in human beings.

同意語

• bowel
• gut
• tharm

派生語

参考

• entrail
• innard
• colon

語源 2

From Latin intestīnus (“internal”), from intus (“within”).

形容詞

intestine (not comparable)

1. Domestic; taking place within a given country or region.
   • 1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond 1957, p.2:

     It being true that now after fiue yeeres intestine warre with the reuengefull implacable Indians, a firme peace (not againe easily to be broken) hath bin lately concluded […].

   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.1,

     Yet the success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms.

2. (obsolete) Internal.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 41, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     When you have alleaged all the reasons you can, and beleeved all to disavow and reject her, she produceth, contrarie to your discourses, so intestine inclination, that you have small hold against her.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Hoping here to end / Intestine war in heaven, the arch foe subdued.

   • (Can we date this quote by Hume かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     an intestine struggle […] between authority and liberty

3. (obsolete, まれに) Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective.
   • (Can we date this quote by Cudworth かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Everything labours under an intestine necessity.

4. (obsolete, まれに) Shut up; enclosed.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Cowper to this entry?)

Latin

形容詞

intestīne

1. vocative masculine singular of intestīnus