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語源

Borrowing from New Latin cyclamen, from Latin cyclamīnos.

発音

名詞

cyclamen (plural cyclamens)

1. Any of various primulaceous flowering plants, of the genus Cyclamen, widely cultivated as a houseplant, having decorative leaves and solitary flowers.

   Synonym: sowbread

   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 268:

     An expectant mother would avoid cyclamen, stepping over it being an ominous sign.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 72:

     The root of the cyclamen, sowbread, was used in ancient times as an ingredient in love potions.

   • 1973, Patrick Millington Synge, In search of flowers:

     An interesting cyclamen was also found here with dark rounded unmarbled leaves, but unfortunately without flowers […]

2. A purplish-red colour.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.

派生した語

• → Japanese: シクラメン (shikuramen)
• → Korean: 시클라멘 (sikeullamen)
• → Chinese: 仙客來 / 仙客来 (xiānkèlái)

アナグラム

• cycleman

名詞

cyclamen n (genitive cyclaminis); third declension

1. alternative form of cyclamīnos

語形変化

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

派生した語

参照

• “cyclămĕn”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 460/3.