labyrinthとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈlab.(ə)ɹ.ɪnθ/, /ˈlab.ɪ.ɹɪnθ/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈlæb.ɚ.ɪnθ/, /ˈlæb.ɹɪnθ/

名詞

labyrinth (複数形 labyrinths)

1. (Greek mythology) A maze-like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos, containing the Minotaur.
   1. A maze, especially underground or covered.
2. (anatomy) Part of the inner ear.
3. (figuratively) Anything complicated and confusing, like a maze.
   • 2014 August 23, Neil Hegarty, “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney, review: 'a necessary corrective' [print version: Re-Joycing in Dublin, p. R25]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎^[1]:

     Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.

4. Any of various satyrine butterflies of the genus Neope.

派生語

動詞

labyrinth (三人称単数 現在形 labyrinths, 現在分詞 labyrinthing, 過去形および過去分詞形 labyrinthed)

1. To enclose in a labyrinth, or as though in a labyrinth.
2. To arrange in the form of a labyrinth.
   • 1898, Missionary Review of the World - Volume 21, page 178:

     It is said to have been labyrinthed by secret exits and cunning contrivances to facilitate the escape of fugitives from the law.

   • 1963, Water & Sewage Works - Volume 110, page 43:

     By labyrinthing, close axial running clearances can be increased without reducing efficiency.

   • 1998, Peter E. Stott, ‎Giuseppe Gorini, ‎Paolo Prandoni, Diagnostics for Experimental Thermonuclear Fusion Reactors:

     In the ports the transmission path is often labyrinthed through shielding but the peculiar requirement of straight beams has been considered.

   • 2011, Peter Capper, ‎James Garland, Mercury Cadmium Telluride: Growth, Properties and Applications:

     The element illustrated has been 'labyrinthed' to improve its performance.

3. To twist and wind, following a labyrinthine path.
   • 1917, Harry Alverson Franck, Vagabonding Down the Andes, page 313:

     We labyrinthed through it, meeting scores of panty-clad and moccasined Indians and barefoot women and girls toiling marketward under atrocious burdens; for the day was Sunday.

   • 2000, James Cook, Counter-Clockwise, page 90:

     Hands clasped together, Linda and Ron walked through the huge doorway leading to the hall that would labyrinth it's way to the parking lot.

   • 2017, Mahvesh Murad, ‎Jared Shurin, ‎Neil Gaiman, The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories:

     I'm far from home, labyrinthing through unfamiliar alleys, before I find the right house.

4. To render lost and confused, as if in a labyrinth.
   • 1886, Pliny A. Durant, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, page 52:

     They arrive at their different destinations long before day, and make their attack about day-break, and seldom fail to kill or make prisoners of the whole family, as the people know nothing of the matter until they are thus labyrinthed.

   • 1951, New Mexico Quarterly - Volumes 21-22:

     He favored, he said, "a kind of half-sleep where I labyrinthed myself."

   • 1995, Patrick Waddington, Theirs but to do and die, page 148:

     Above all, he flatters the men by emphasising their numerical victory: a British regiment may have turned into a troop, but it left behind it 'labyrinthed legions' of dead Russians.

参照

• “labyrinth” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.