vittaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -ɪtə

名詞

vitta (plural vittae)

1. A fillet, or garland for the head.
2. (zoology) A longitudinal stripe.
   • 1870, American Entomologist and Botanist, volume 2, page 301:

     The curved black line behind the scutel is usually expanded, in connection with the metathoracic black vitta, into a broad black triangle, the apex of which does not quite attain the abdominal peduncle.

3. (botany) An oil tube in the fruit of some plants.

アナグラム

• Ivatt

語源

From Latin vieō (“to plait, weave”), perhaps via an earlier *vīta, a to-particle of vieō (< *uiH-to-).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈwɪt.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈvit̪.t̪a]

名詞

vitta f (genitive vittae); first declension

1. band, ribbon

   Synonym: taenia

2. fillet, headband, chaplet

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “vitta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vitta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.