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語源

Learned borrowing from Latin asphodelus, from Ancient Greek ἀσφόδελος (asphódelos). Doublet of daffodil.

発音

• IPA: /ˈæsfədɛl/

名詞

asphodel (usually uncountable, plural asphodels)

1. Any of the flowering plants of the family Asphodelaceae, especially Asphodelus ramosus and Asphodelus albus; the flower of these plants.
   • 1962, Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Peter Green, The Prime of Life, Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, translation of La Force de l'âge, →OCLC, page 77:

     Sometimes I lost track of them and had to hunt round in a circle, thrusting through sharp-scented bushes, scratching myself on various plants which were still new to me: resinaceous rock-roses, juniper, ilex, yellow and white asphodel [translating asphodèles].

2. (Greek mythology) The flower said to carpet Hades, and a favorite food of the dead.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Her hand he seis'd, and to a shadie bank,
     Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr'd
     He led her nothing loath; Flours were the Couch,
     Pansies, and Violets, and Asphodel,
     And Hyacinth, Earths freshest softest lap.

派生語

• bog asphodel

参照

アナグラム

• pholades, Adolphes