trepanとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed 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.
   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 17, in The History of England from the Accession of James II:

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

2. (archaic) A snare; a trapan.
   • (Can we date this quote by South かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     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 trick; to ensnare; to seduce.

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

アナグラム

• -pteran, Parten, arpent, enrapt, entrap, panter, parent