sectileとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin sectilis.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɛktəl/, [ˈsɛktᵊɫ̩], /ˈsɛktˌaɪl/

形容詞

sectile (comparative more sectile, superlative most sectile)

1. Capable of being cut; easily cut.

   Antonyms: indivisible, undissectable, uncuttable, unsliceable, unsectionable

   Near-synonyms: sectionable, dissectable, dissectible, cuttable, sliceable

   • 1850, Robert Wight, Illustrations of Indian Botany, volume 2, Myrtaceae:

     a fruit consisting of an exterior pulpy or fleshy portion, sarcocarp, enclosing the seed, in this case not hard and bony, as in true drupes, but fleshy and easily sectile.

   • 1862, Robert Mallet, Great Neapolitan Earthquake of 1857/Part I. Ch. XIX, Part I. Ch. XIX:

     The beds, usually soft and sectile, and acted on with immense rapidity by river erosion, being converted into masses of striped jasper, often of great beauty and extreme hardness.

   1. (mineralogy) Capable of being cut smoothly with a knife.

      Near-synonym: sliceable

      Coordinate terms: friable, crumblable

      • 1911, Leonard James Spencer, “Argentite”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, New York, N.Y.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.:

        The mineral is perfectly sectile and has a shining streak

2. Having the appearance of being divided or broken.

   Coordinate terms: sectioned, dissected, incised

   • 1880, William Smith, ‎Samuel Cheetham, A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities:

     A good, though small, example of a sectile pavement will be found in the triforium of the cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle, being no doubt a portion of that brought by Charles the Great from Rome or Ravenna.

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• opus sectile

参照

• “sectile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

参照

• "sectile", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)