laburnumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin laburnum.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ləˈbɝnəm/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ləˈbɜːnəm/

名詞

laburnum (plural laburnums)

1. Any tree of the genus Laburnum.

   Synonyms: golden chain, golden rain

   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter I, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 1:

     […] Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs[.]

   • 1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, published 1998:

     The trees began to come fully alive. The larches and birches were covered with green, the laburnums with gold.

派生語

アナグラム

• alburnum

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ɫaˈbʊr.nũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [laˈbur.num]
• Note: the length of the first vowel is unknown.

名詞

laburnum n (genitive laburnī); second declension

1. plant of the genus Laburnum, golden chain

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

参照

Further reading

• “laburnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “laburnum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.