rhonchusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin rhonchus (“snoring”), from Ancient Greek ῥόγχος (rhónkhos) (Caelius Aurelianus),^[1] of imitative origin.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒŋ.kəs/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑŋ.kəs/

名詞

rhonchus (複数形 rhonchi)

1. (medicine) A dry rattling sound heard during breathing, due to deposits in the bronchial tubes.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 699:

     “You have poisoned yourself again!” Humfried emitted an alarming rhonchus.

派生語

• rhonchial

参照

Latin

語源

Coined by Roman physician and writer on medical topics Caelius Aurelianus: borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥόγχος (rhónkhos, “snoring, stertorous breathing”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈron.kʰus/, [ˈrɔŋkʰʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈron.kus/, [ˈrɔŋkus]

名詞

rhonchus m (genitive rhonchī); second declension

1. A snoring.
   1. (transferred sense) The croaking of a frog.
2. (figurative) A sneering, sneer, jeer.

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

派生した語

• → Dutch: rhonchus
• → English: rhonchus

参照

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