ungulaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin ungula (“claw, hoof”), from unguis (“nail, claw, hoof”).

名詞

ungula (plural ungulae)

1. (dated) A hoof, claw, or talon.
2. (geometry) A section of a cylinder, cone, or other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse.
3. (botany) Synonym of claw (“slender appendage or process at the base of a petal”).

   Synonym: unguis

4. A surgical instrument for use in removing a dead fetus.

派生語

参照

• “ungula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• ungual

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈʊŋ.ɡʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈuŋ.ɡu.la]

名詞

ungula f (genitive ungulae); first declension

1. hoof, claw
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 8.596:

     quadripedante putrem sonitū quatit ungula campum

     Then struck the hoofs of the steeds on the ground with a four-footed trampling.

2. (figuratively) a horse
3. an aromatic spice

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

• ungulātus

関連する語

• unguis

派生した語

参照

Further reading

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