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発音

• IPA: /ˈbəʊləs/

• 韻: -əʊləs

名詞

bolus (plural boluses or (nonstandard) boli)

1. A round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal.
2. A single, large dose of a drug, especially one in that form.
   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

     I gave him a bolus, twice the size of a gooseberry.

派生語

動詞

bolus (third-person singular simple present boluses, present participle bolusing, simple past and past participle bolused)

1. (transitive) To administer (a drug) in bolus dosing, that is, dosing in (one or more) boluses.
2. (intransitive) To take a bolus (dose) of insulin at a mealtime in order to control one's blood glucose level in diabetes.

   Coordinate term: prebolus

参考

• holus-bolus

Further reading

• bolus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Loubs, bouls, lobus

語源 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βόλος (bólos).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈbɔ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈbɔː.lus]

名詞

bolus m (genitive bolī); second declension

1. a throw of the dice
   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Curculio 5.2.12–14:

     Quid agis, bone vir? — Audio.
     Si vis tribus bolis, vel in chlamydem. — Quin tu is in malam crucem
     cum bolis, cum bulbis?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. a cast of a fishing net
3. a gain, profit, or advantage

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

語源 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈboː.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈbɔː.lus]

名詞

bōlus f (genitive bōlī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) clod of earth, lump
2. (New Latin) clay

   bōlus alba ― kaolinite

参照

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