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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkəʊmə/
• (米国発音) enPR: kōʹmə, IPA: /ˈkoʊmə/
• 韻: -əʊmə
• ハイフネーション: co‧ma
• Homophone: comber (non-rhotic)

語源 1

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).

名詞

coma (plural comas)

1. A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.

   go into a coma

   slip into a coma

   come out of a coma

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 215:

     An a aphrodisiac, it results in santonin poisoning, followed by coma and death.

   • 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 208:

     I wonder if a person who comes out of a coma feels refreshed and well rested.

派生語

関連する語

• comatose

参考

• persistent vegetative state
• brain death

語源 2

Learned borrowing from Latin coma (“hair of the head”), from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē, “hair”).

名詞

coma (plural comae)

1. (astronomy) A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
2. (optics) A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.
3. (botany) A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

アナグラム

• AMOC, OAMC, camo, maco

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkɔ.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkɔː.ma]

名詞

coma f (genitive comae); first declension

1. The hair of the head.

   Synonyms: crīnis, capillus

2. foliage, ears, blades, stalks of trees, grass (as though resembling hair)

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

• comātus
• comula

関連する語

• comētēs

派生した語

参照

• “coma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “coma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "coma", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “coma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “coma”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin