murexとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin murex.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmjʊɚ.ɛks/

名詞

murex (複数形 murexes または murices)

1. Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods.
   • 1991, John Montroll, Robert J. Lang, Origami Sea Life, page 56:

     The murexes (family Muricidae) are one of the most beautiful and sought-after families by shell collectors.

上位語

• muricine

下位語

• false venus comb, woodcock murex

アナグラム

• muxer, rumex

Latin

語源

Uncertain. Perhaps a derivative of mūs (“mouse”), whence mūsculus (“a saltwater mussel”).^[1] Alternatively, together with Ancient Greek μύαξ (múax, “sea mussel”) borrowed from a Mediterranean substrate language.^[2]

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.reks/, [ˈmuːrɛks̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.reks/, [ˈmuːreks]

名詞

mūrex m (genitive mūricis); third declension

1. A shellfish used as a source of the dye Tyrian purple; the purple-fish
2. Tyrian purple, the purple dye, a purple color, made from the juice of the purple-fish
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.107:

     induerat Tyriō bis tīnctam mūrice pallam

     He had put on his mantle, twice dyed with Tyrian purple.

3. A sharp murex shell used as a bridle bit.
4. A pointed rock or stone.
5. A caltrop.
6. An iron spike.

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

• mūricātus
• mūriculus
• mūriculātus

派生した語

• English: muriciform, muricite, muricoid
• Irish: maorach
• Catalan: múrex
• Italian: murice
• Portuguese: múrice
• Spanish: múrice
• Translingual: Murex

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