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語源

Learned borrowing from Latin meātus (“a going, passing; a way, path, passage”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /miˈeɪ.təs/

• (plural) (General American) IPA: /miˈeɪ.təs/, /miˈeɪˌtus/
• 韻: -eɪtəs

名詞

meatus (plural meatus or meatuses)

1. (anatomy) A tubular opening or passage leading to the interior of the body.

   Hyponyms: acoustic meatus, urinary meatus

   The urinary meatus is the opening of the urethra, situated on the glans penis in males, and in the vulva in females.

   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 60:

     The illness. It came out of nowhere. His breathing all of a sudden started hurting the back of his throat. Then that overfull heat in various cranial meatus.

   • 2012, David W. Kennedy, Peter H. Hwang, editors, Rhinology: Diseases of the Nose, Sinuses, and Skull Base‎, Thieme, →ISBN:

     The vibrissae are coarse hairs whose follicles are located just within the nasal meatus.

2. (anatomy) Ellipsis of acoustic meatus, the passage leading into the ear.

   Synonym: ear canal

派生語

• external auditory meatus
• meatal
• meato-
• permeate

参考

• ear canal
• foramen

Further reading

• “meatus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “meatus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

アナグラム

• Matsue, autems, mutase

語源 1

Perfect passive participle of meō (“to go, to pass”).

Participle

meātus (feminine meāta, neuter meātum); first/second-declension participle

1. perfect passive participle of meō

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

関連する語

• commeātus
• intrameātus
• permeātus
• remeātus

語源 2

From meō (“to go, pass”) +‎ -tus (action noun suffix).

名詞

meātus m (genitive meātūs); fourth declension

1. (literal) a going, passing, motion, course
2. (transferred sense) a way, path, passage
   • Cornelius Tacitus, De origine et situ germanorum 1.6–8:

     ‘Danubius molli et clementer edito montis Abnobae iugo effusus plures populos adit, donec in Ponticum mare sex meatibus erumpat; septimum os paludibus hauritur.’

     “The Danube pours down from the gradual and gently rising slope of Mount Abnoba, and visits many nations, to force its way at last through six channels into the Pontus; a seventh mouth is lost in marshes.”
     

   1. the avenues of sensation in the body

Inflection

Fourth-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

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