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• endemick (obsolete)

語源

From Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) + δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) +‎ -ic. Possibly via Ancient Greek ἔνδημος (éndēmos, “among one's people, at home, native”) and/or French endémique. By surface analysis, en- +‎ demic.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, 米国発音) IPA: /ɛnˈdɛm.ɪk/, (less common) /ɪnˈdɛm.ɪk/
• 韻: -ɛmɪk

形容詞

endemic (not comparable)

1. Native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs.

   The endemic religion of Easter Island arrived with the Polynesian settlers.

2. (especially of plants and animals) Peculiar to a particular area or region; not found in other places.

   Kangaroos are endemic to Australia.

   • 1966 October, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume I, New York, N.Y.; London: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 4:

     […] a continental northern Alaskan element, including a series of endemic species and disjuncts that have survived the Pleistocene glaciation in northern Alaska and thus represent relicts of the much warmer Tertiary […]

3. (especially of diseases) Prevalent in a particular area or region, persistent within a population.

   Coordinate terms: (humans) epidemic, pandemic, (nonhuman animals) enzootic, epizootic, panzootic; (plants) enphytotic, epiphytotic, panphytotic

   Malaria is endemic to the tropics.

   • 1998, Gillian Catriona Ramchand, Deconstructing the Lexicon, in Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds. “The Projection of Arguments”

     These problems are endemic to the theory of thematic roles as currently conceived, because the classification it implies simply does not correspond to legitimate linguistic semantic definitions.

   • 2017 July 26, Lindsay Murdoch, “Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's first female PM, faces financial ruin and jail”, in The Sydney Morning Herald;‎:

     In a country where corruption is endemic, no evidence has been presented that Ms Yingluck took any money from the rice scheme, which in 2012 and 2013 cost Thailand billions of dollars. But a state-appointed committee last year ordered her to pay the fine, finding she was to blame, even though it was government policy.

使用する際の注意点

An endemic disease is one which is constantly present in a given area, though usually at low levels, whereas an epidemic is widespread and has a high incidence. A sporadic disease occurs now and then at low levels.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:endemic.

同意語

• (native to a particular area): native
• (peculiar to a particular area): indigenous, precinctive

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “native to a particular area”): alien, alien, introduced
• (antonym(s) of “localized”): systemic

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名詞

endemic (plural endemics)

1. An individual or species that is endemic to a region.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 34:

     The species that appeared as a consequence were endemics; that is, they were found nowhere else in the world.

2. A disease affecting a number of people simultaneously, so as to show a distinct connection with certain localities.

   Coordinate terms: (humans) epidemic, pandemic, (nonhuman animals) enzootic, epizootic, panzootic; (plants) enphytotic, epiphytotic

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