spadixとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈspeɪdɪks/

名詞

spadix (複数形 spadixes または spadices)

1. (botany) A fleshy spike (inflorescence) with reduced flowers, usually enclosed by a spathe, characteristic of aroids.
   • 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, p. 148:

     The spadix of this plant is frequently quite white, or coloured, and the leaves liable to be streaked with white, and to have black, or scarlet blotches on them.

2. (zoology) A male sexual organ of certain cephalopods and hydrozoans (especially the nautilus), used to transfer sperm.
   • 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 57:

     However, the shells of modern nautiluses show the opposite pattern—males are somewhat larger than females, with a wider aperture to accommodate the spadix.

派生語

• spadiceous

参考

• Araceae
• spathe

Latin

語源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σπᾱ́δῑξ (spā́dīx).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspaː.diːks/, [ˈs̠päːd̪iːks̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspa.diks/, [ˈspäːd̪iks]

名詞

spādīx m (genitive spādīcis); third declension

1. spadix, inflorescence (especially of a palm tree)
2. a type of lyre

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

形容詞

spādīx (genitive spādīcis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. chestnut-colored, chestnut (of a horse)
2. strong brown

語形変化

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

参照

• “spadix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “spadix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• spadix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette