trepanとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trepan, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trephine.

名詞

trepan (複数形 trepans)

1. A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
2. (medicine) A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.

動詞

trepan (三人称単数 現在形 trepans, 現在分詞 trepanning または trepaning, 過去形および過去分詞形 trepanned または trepaned)

1. (transitive, manufacturing, mining) To create a large hole by making a narrow groove outlining the shape of the hole and then removing the plug of material remaining by less expensive means.
2. (medicine) To use a trepan; to trephine.

語源 2

Possibly from 古期英語 treppan (“to trap”).

名詞

trepan (複数形 trepans)

1. (archaic) A trickster.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 17, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     He had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan.

2. (archaic) A snare; a trapan.
   • 1698, Robert South, Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions

     Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way.

動詞

trepan (三人称単数 現在形 trepans, 現在分詞 trepanning, 過去形および過去分詞形 trepanned)

1. (archaic) To ensnare; to seduce, to trick.
   • 1796, J[ohn] G[abriel] Stedman, chapter XVII, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; […], volume II, London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], and J. Edwards, […], OCLC 13966308, page 28:

     Among his men I recollected one Cordus, a gentleman's ſon from Hamburgh, in which character I had known him, and who had been trepanned into the Weſt India Company's ſervice by the crimps or ſilver-coopers as a common ſoldier.

   • 1798 Charlotte Turner Smith: The Young Philosopher. Vol.4, Chapter 9. ...a postchaise, into which he had so infamously trepanned me...