testisとは意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

testis (複数形 testes)

1. (anatomy) A testicle of a vertebrate.
2. (biology) An analogous gland in invertebrates such as the hydra.

関連する語

• testicle, testicular
• testicond

Latin

語源 1

For *terstis, from Proto-Italic *tristis, from Proto-Indo-European *tristh₂s ("a third party standing", after the two parties to a contract または dispute), from *tréyes (“three”) and *steh₂- (“to stand”). Compare Oscan trstus (“witnesses”, nominative 複数形)^[1][2][3][4].

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtes.tis/, [ˈt̪ɛs̠t̪ɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtes.tis/, [ˈt̪ɛst̪is]

名詞

testis m or f (genitive testis); third declension

2. witness

   Synonyms: arbiter, auctor

3. one who testifies or attests

語形変化

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

派生語

• testor

関連する語

派生した語

• → Italian: teste (learned)
• → Proto-Brythonic: *tɨst
  • Middle Welsh: tyst
    • Welsh: tyst

語源 2

Of disputed origin. Perhaps either:

• From some particular use of testis (“witness”), as in "bearing witness to virility" or "two together" (considering also the slang uses in Ancient Greek of παραστάται (parastátai, “colleagues, testicles”) and, more recently, French témoins)
• Related to testa (“pot, shell”).^[5]

名詞

testis m (genitive testis); third declension

2. testicle
   • c. 254 BCE – 184 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 1426:

     Si posthac prehendero ego te hīc, carebis testibus.

     If, after this time, I catch you here again, you will be missing your testicles.

語形変化

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

派生語

• testiculus

派生した語

• → English: testis (learned)
• → Indonesian: testis (learned)
• → Italian: teste (learned)
• → Serbo-Croatian: (learned)

  Cyrillic: тестис

  Latin: tȅstis

• → Turkish: testis (learned)

参照

• “testis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “testis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• testis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• testis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • an important witness: testis gravis
    
  • a witness worthy of all credit: testis locuples
    
  • an impartial witness: testis incorruptus atque integer
    
  • to cite a person to give evidence on a matter: aliquem testem alicuius rei (in aliquid) citare
    
  • to use some one's evidence: aliquem testem adhibere
    
  • to use some one's evidence: aliquo teste uti
    
  • to produce as a witness: aliquem testem dare, edere, proferre
    
  • to produce as a witness: aliquem testem producere
    
  • to appear as witness against a person: testem prodire (in aliquem)
    
  • to be convicted by some one's evidence: testibus teneri, convictum esse
    
  • this shows, proves..: testis est, testatur, declarat
    
• “testis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “testis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin