spermatizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin spermatizare (“to spermatize”), possibly via French spermatiser, from Ancient Greek σπερματίζειν (spermatízein, “to sow, spread seed upon”), from σπέρμα (spérma, “seed, sperm”). By surface analysis, spermat- +‎ -ize.

動詞

spermatize (third-person singular simple present spermatizes, present participle spermatizing, simple past and past participle spermatized)

1. (obsolete) To produce or emit sperm.
   • 1611, Randle Cotgrave, “Spermatiser”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues:

     ... to spermatize; to shed, eiect, or iniect sperme.

参照

• "spermatize, v.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• “spermatize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.