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語源

From Latin ductor, agent noun of duco (“to lead”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈdʌktə(ɹ)/

名詞

ductor (plural ductors)

1. (obsolete) One who leads.
   • 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter II.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 115:

     The Rhombus or Lozenge figure ſo viſible in this order, vvas alſo a remarkable form of battle in the Grecian Cavalry, […] As being moſt ready to turn every vvay, and beſt to be commanded, as having its ductors, or Commanders at each Angle.

2. (printing) A device, usually in the form of an oscillating roller, for transferring ink from a source to the ink train rollers in a controlled manner.
   • 1883, Andrew Overend, "Inking apparatus for printing-machines", US patent US363760, filed 9 November 1883, issued 24 May 1887.

     The combination, with a fountain-roller and an ink-cylinder, of a ductor movable between said roller and cylinder for delivering ink from one to the other...

   • 2004, Daniel Gamota, Printed Organic and Molecular Electronics, Springer, published 2004, →ISBN:

     Ink is transferred to the ink distribution rollers by a ductor roller.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈdʊk.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈduk.tor]

名詞

ductor m (genitive ductōris); third declension

1. leader; e.g., king, chieftain, prince, etc.
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneid 4.36-38:

     “[...] dēspectus Iarbās / ductōrēsque aliī, quōs Āfrica terra triumphīs / dīves alit [...].”

     “[...] Iarbas was scorned, and [those] other leaders, [the kind] whom the African land, abundant in war triumphs, nurtures [...].”
     (Ancient readers would have recalled Roman military victories over Africa.)

2. commander, general
3. (figuratively) iron worker (one who draws out)

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

• armiductor
• ductrix

関連する語

• dūcō
• ductus

派生した語

• → English: ductor
• Spanish: ductor

参照

• “ductor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ductor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "ductor", 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)
• “ductor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• ductor in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016