pulvinusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -aɪnəs

名詞

pulvinus (plural pulvinae or pulvini)

1. (botany) A joint on a plant leaf or petiole that may swell and cause movement of the leaf or leaflet.

Further reading

• Adrian D. Bell, Plant Form (new ed.), Timber Press, 2008. →ISBN

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [pʊɫˈwiː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [pulˈviː.nus]

名詞

pulvīnus m (genitive pulvīnī); second declension

1. cushion, pillow, bolster

   Synonyms: culcita, coxīnus, cervīcal

2. bank, an elevated piece of arable land; a raised bed
3. The rounded part on the side of a Ionic column capital

   Synonyms: baluster, volute

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生した語

• Italian: pulvino
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: povin
• → English: pulvinus (learned)
• → Proto-West Germanic: *pulwī (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “pulvinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pulvinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pulvinus", 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)
• “pulvinus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “pulvinus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin