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語源

Borrowed from Latin nebula (“little cloud, mist”). Akin to Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”), German Nebel (“mist, nebula”), Old Norse nifl, Polish niebo (“sky, heaven”), Russian не́бо (nébo, “sky”).

発音

• enPR: neb'jə-lə, IPA: /ˈnɛbjʊlə/

名詞

nebula (plural nebulae or nebulas or (archaic) nebulæ)

1. (astronomy) A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).

   Hyponyms: emission nebula, pulsar wind nebula, supernova remnant

   • 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:

     Approximately 5 billion years ago, our solar nebula was formed as gravitational forces pulled interstellar gas and dust into a swirling mass around out newly formed sun.

2. (archaic, medicine) A white spot or slight opacity of the cornea.
3. (obsolete, medicine) A cloudy appearance in the urine.

派生語

関連する語

• nebulosity
• nebulous
• nebular

参考

• plerion
• nova remnant
• supernova remnant
• Herbig-Haro object
• Bok globule
• interstellar cloud
• intergalactic cloud
• high velocity cloud

アナグラム

• Buelna, Nabeul, unable, unbale

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈnɛ.bʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈnɛː.bu.la]

名詞

nebula f (genitive nebulae); first declension

1. fog
2. cloud
3. vapor
4. nebula

語形変化

First-declension noun.

同意語

• cālīgō

派生語

• nebulōsus

派生した語

参照

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