larvaとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑː.və/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑɹ.və/
• (米国発音)
• 韻: -ɑː(r)və
• Homophone: lava (in non-rhotic accents)

名詞

larva (複数形 larvas または larvae または larvæ)

1. An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish.
2. An animal in the aforementioned stage.
3. A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.

使用する際の注意点

Although the plural larvas is somewhat common, it is regarded by some as incorrect.

アナグラム

• Raval, alvar, arval, lavra

Latin

語源

Possibly from Lār (“Etruscan praenomen; titulary god”), usu. as Lares (“guardian deities”), but vowel length gradation unexplained.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlaːr.u̯a/, [ˈɫ̪äːru̯ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlar.va/, [ˈlɑrvɑ]
• (Plautine) IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.ru.a/, [ˈɫ̪äːɾuä]
• (Plautine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.ru.a/, [ˈlɑːɾuɑ]

名詞

lārva f (genitive lārvae); first declension

1. ghost, haunt, evil spirit, demon, devil
2. hobgoblin, goblin
3. (figuratively) horrific mask
4. (figuratively) skeleton

語形変化

First-declension noun.

引用

• circa 200 B.C., Plautus, Captivi, Act 3, Scene 4, line 66:

  Larvae stimulant virum.

  The ghosts rouse the man.

派生語

• lārvālis
• lārvāns
• lārvō

派生した語

動詞

larvā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of larvō (enchant!)

参照

• larva in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• larva in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• larva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) , “lārua”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 328