nectarとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛk.tə/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛk.təɹ/
• ハイフネーション: nec‧tar

名詞

nectar (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 nectars)

1. (chiefly mythology) The drink of the gods. [from 16th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 3, canto 4:

     They pourd in soveraine balme and Nectar good, / Good both for erthly med'cine and for hevenly food.

2. (by extension) Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice. [from 16th c.]
3. (botany) The sweet liquid secreted by flowers to attract pollinating insects and birds. [from 17th c.]

関連する語

• nectarine
• nectarous
• nectary

参考

• ambrosia
• pollen

動詞

nectar (三人称単数 現在形 nectars, 現在分詞 nectaring, 過去形および過去分詞形 nectared)

1. (intransitive) To feed on nectar.
   • 2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year (page 123)

     On the lane below, more orangetips nectared on spring beauties and violets.

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “nectar”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

アナグラム

• Canter, Cretan, canter, carnet, centra, creant, recant, tanrec, trance

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnek.tar/, [ˈnɛkt̪är]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnek.tar/, [ˈnɛkt̪är]

語源 1

From Ancient Greek νέκταρ (néktar), from Proto-Indo-European *néḱ-tr̥h₂, derived from the roots *neḱ- (“to perish”) and *terh₂- (“to overcome”).

名詞

nectar n sg (genitive nectaris); third declension

1. nectar

語形変化

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

関連する語

• nectareus

派生した語

• → English: nectar
• French: nectar
• Italian: nettare
• Portuguese: néctar
• Spanish: néctar

参照

• “nectar”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• “nectar”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nectar”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nectar”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

動詞

nectar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of nectō