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発音

• enPR: hyo͞o'məs, IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːməs/
• Rhymes: -uːməs

名詞

humus (usually uncountable, 複数形 humuses)

1. A large group of natural organic compounds, found in the soil, formed from the chemical and biological decomposition of plant and animal residues and from the synthetic activity of microorganisms.

上位語

• organic matter

Meronyms

• humic acid

参考

• compost
• mulch

語源 2

Borrowed from Turkish humus or Arabic حُمُّص‎ (ḥummuṣ).

名詞

humus (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of hummus (“chickpea dip”)

アナグラム

• mu shu

Latin

別の表記

• umus
• humum

語源

From Proto-Italic *homos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰomós, from *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”). Cognates include Sanskrit क्ष (kṣa), Ancient Greek χθών (khthṓn), and Old Church Slavonic землꙗ (zemlja). Related to homō (“human being, man”).^[1]

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhu.mus/, [ˈhʊmʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.mus/, [ˈuːmus]

名詞

humus f (genitive humī); second declension

1. ground, floor
2. earth, soil
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.559-560:

     [Triptolemus] prīmus arābit et seret et culta praemia tollet humō

     [Triptolemus] will be the first to plow and sow and take away the rewards from cultivated soil.
     (See Triptolemus, Demophon of Eleusis, かつ Celeus for the ancient Greek myths about a royal family who are presented as humble country folk in the Fasti.)

   Synonyms: terra, solum, tellūs

語形変化

Second-declension noun, with locative.

humus is one of a handful of common nouns that take the locative case (humī); other such nouns include domus and rūs. Also, irregular ablative singular humū once used by Varro.

派生語

• humilis
• humō

派生した語

• → Armenian: հումուս (humus)
• → Czech: humus
• → Dutch: humus
• → English: humus
• → Finnish: humus
• → French: humus
  • → Turkish: humus
• → Galician: humus
• → German: Humus
• → Greek: χούμος (choúmos)
• → Irish: húmas
• → Italian: umus
• → Malay: humus
• → Polish: humus
• → Portuguese: húmus, humo
• → Romanian: humus, humă
• → Russian: гу́мус (gúmus)
• → Serbo-Croatian: ху́мус (húmus)
• → Spanish: humus
• → Swedish: humus

参照

• “humus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “humus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• humus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette