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語源

From Latin calyx, from Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kálux, “case of a bud, husk”). Doublet of chalice and kelch.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkæ.lɪks/, /ˈkeɪ.lɪks/
• 韻: -ælɪks

名詞

calyx (plural calyces or calyxes)

1. (botany) The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.

   Meronym: sepal

   • 1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf‎, Macmillan, page 202:

     Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds.

2. (zoology, anatomy) Any of various cup-like structures.
   1. A chamber in the mammalian kidney through which urine passes.
   2. The crown containing the viscera of crinoids and similar echinoderms, entoprocts, and the polyps of some cnidarians.
   3. A funnel-shaped expansion of the vas deferens or oviduct of insects.
   4. A flattened cap of neuropil in the brain of insects.

派生語

Further reading

• calyx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• calyx (botany) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• calyx (anatomy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “calyx”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈka.lyks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkaː.liks]
• Homophone: calix (pronunciation of ⟨y⟩ as ⟨i⟩)

名詞

calyx m (genitive calycis); third declension

1. the bud, cup, or calyx of a flower or nut
2. a plant of two kinds, resembling the arum; perhaps the monk's hood
3. (transferred sense):
   1. epicarp (the outermost layer of various fruits)
   2. an eggshell
   3. a fitting on a Roman pipe

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

• → English: calyx
• → Galician: cáliz
• → Italian: calice
• → Portuguese: cálice
• → Spanish: cáliz

参考

• calix

参照

• https://web.archive.org/web/20160925020435/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/calyx
• https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/calyx
• “calyx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “calyx”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.