semicardinalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

semi- +‎ cardinal

形容詞

semicardinal (not comparable)

1. Being or relating to a direction between two adjacent cardinal points, i.e. northwest, northeast, southwest, or southeast.
   • a. 1627 (date written), Francis Bacon, “The History of the Winds”, in James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, editors, The Works of Francis Bacon, […], volume V, London: Longman and Co.;  […], published 1858, →OCLC, page 147:

     Let the general division of the winds be as follows: Cardinal Winds, which blow from the cardinal points of heaven; Semicardinal, which blow halfway between those points

   • 1996, Douglas R. Parks, Myths and Traditions of the Arikara Indians, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 95:

     Historically these colors were associated with the semicardinal directions as follows: black and northeast; yellow and southeast; red and southwest; white and northwest.