perulaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin pērula, diminutive of pera (“wallet”), from Ancient Greek πήρα (pḗra). Compare French pérule.

別の表記

perule

名詞

perula (plural perulae)

1. (botany) One of the scales of a leaf bud.
2. (botany) A pouchlike portion of the perianth in certain orchids.

アナグラム

• epural, pleura

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈpeː.rʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈpɛː.ru.la]

名詞

pērula f (genitive pērulae); first declension

1. a little wallet, a pocket
   1. in literal use
   2. (transferred sense, comical) a tumescent womb or paunch

語形変化

First-declension noun.

参照

• “pērŭla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

語源 2

From pirum (“a pear”).

別の表記

• perla, perna, pella

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈpɛ.rʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈpɛː.ru.la]

名詞

perula f (genitive perulae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) pearl (shelly concretion, usually found in oysters, and often valued in a manner akin to semi-precious gems)
   • 1272, an unknown source in The Natural History of Precious Stones and of the Precious Metals (1867), viii, page 269:

     Una Perla ad modum camahuti.

     A pearl in the manner of a cameo.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

同意語

• (pearl): margarīta (Classical)

派生した語

English pearl and its cognates are of uncertain etymology and may alternatively derive from Medieval Latin *pernula, a diminutive of perna (“haunch; a marine bivalve shaped like a leg of lamb”).

Borrowings:

Ultimately from perula (or *pernula) but of uncertain intermediate borrowings:

参照

• “perula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "perula", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• perula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), page 794/2, “perula”