英和和英

語源

From Latin serpula. See serpent.

名詞

serpula (複数形 serpulas または serpulae)

1. (zoology) Any of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae that secrete a calcareous tube, usually irregularly contorted, but sometimes spirally coiled, with a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.

アナグラム

• epurals, perusal

Latin

語源

From serpō (“crawl”). Seems to end in the diminutive suffix -ula and function as a diminutive of serpēns (“serpent, snake”), although not directly built on the latter's stem.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈser.pu.la/, [ˈs̠ɛrpʊɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈser.pu.la/, [ˈsɛrpulä]

名詞

serpula f (genitive serpulae); first declension

1. a little snake, a little serpent

語形変化

First-declension noun.

参照

• “serpula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• serpula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette