quadrifurcusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From quattuor (“four”) + furca (“fork”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷa.driˈfur.kus/, [kʷäd̪rɪˈfʊrkʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwa.driˈfur.kus/, [kwäd̪riˈfurkus]

形容詞

quadrifurcus (feminine quadrifurca, neuter quadrifurcum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Late Latin) having four forks, prongs, or points

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

関連する語

• bifurcus
• trifurcus

派生した語

• Old French: quarrefourc
  • → English: carfax, carrefour
  • French: carrefour
  • Norman: carrefour

参照

• quadrifurcus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “carrefour”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.