velumとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈviː.ləm/, /ˈvɛl.əm/

名詞

velum (複数形 vela または velums)

1. a thin membrane resembling a veil or curtain, such as:
   1. (anatomy) the soft palate
   2. (botany) a thin membrane partially covering the cluster of sporangia near the leaf base in quillworts and their extinct relatives
   3. (mycology) a veil-like membrane of immature mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is torn by growth, to reveal the gills
   4. (malacology) a locomotory and feeding organ provided with cilia found in the larval stage of bivalves
   5. (zoology) a annular membrane, typically bordering a cavity, especially in certain molluscs, medusae, and other invertebrates
   6. a delicate membrane found on certain protists
2. (meteorology) an accessory cloud resembling a veil extending over a large distance; normally associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus

派生語

• velar (adjective)

参照

• “velum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “velum”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.

アナグラム

• mvule

Latin

vēla rubra (red sails)

語源

• From Proto-Italic *wekslom, from Proto-Indo-European *wegslom, from *weg- (“to weave, bind”). Note its diminutive form vēxillum (as in pālus > pāxillus). Cognate with English wick.

• Others refer it to *weǵʰ- (“to ride”), thus "that which propels". Cognate with Proto-Slavic *veslo (“oar”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯eː.lum/, [ˈu̯eːɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.lum/, [ˈvɛːlum]

名詞

vēlum n (genitive vēlī); second declension

1. a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning
   • a. 224, Ulpiānus, Dīgesta seu Pandectae‎^[1], volume XXX, 41.10:

     Sed sī cancellī sint vel vēla, lēgārī poterunt, nōn tamen fistulae vel castellī.

     But while bar-doors or their veils can be legated, not so water-pipes or water-basins.

2. (usually in the plural) the sail of a ship
3. (anatomy) the soft palate

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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参照

• velum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• velum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• velum 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)
• velum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to put to sea: vela in altum dare (Liv. 25. 27)
    
  • (ambiguous) to set the sails: vela facere, pandere
    
  • (ambiguous) to set the sails: vela dare
    
  • (ambiguous) to furl the sails: vela contrahere (also metaph.)
    
  • (ambiguous) sails and rigging: vela armamentaque