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発音

• IPA: /ˈspætjʊlə/, /ˈspæt͡ʃʊlə/, /ˈspæt͡ʃələ/
• ハイフネーション: spat‧u‧la

名詞

spatula (plural spatulas or spatulae or spatulæ)

1. (cooking) A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.

   Synonyms: fish slice, fish trowel, turner, pancake turner, kitchen turner, cooking turner, flipper

2. (Canada, US) A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls.

   Synonyms: scraper, dough scraper

3. (dated) A palette knife.
4. (chemistry) A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.
5. (UK) A tongue depressor.
6. A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.
   • 1963, Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service:

     The croupier delicately faced her other two cards with the tip of his spatula. A four! She had lost!

7. (entomology) A sclerotized, T-shaped plate in the prothorax of larvae of flies belonging to family Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges.
   • 2015 November 2, Donald B. Thomas, John A. Goolsby, “Morphology of the Preimaginal Stages of Lasioptera donacis Coutin (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), a Candidate Biocontrol Agent for Giant Arundo Cane”, in Psyche, →DOI:

     The third instars are similar to other members of the genus except for a three-pronged spatula (typically two-pronged) and five lateral papillae (typically four) and with a nonbristled first instar.

派生語

動詞

spatula (third-person singular simple present spatulas, present participle spatulaing, simple past and past participle spatulaed)

1. (transitive) To lift with or as if with a spatula.
   • 1996 September 3, Macy Garcia, “What is the difference between Gesso, Modeling Paste & Texture Gel?”, in rec.arts.fine‎ (Usenet):

     A book on Pastels referes [sic] to a rough Modeling paste to be spatulaed over cotton duck.

   • 1997 May 15, Toby, “Any same-sex marriage opposition?”, in alt.atheism‎ (Usenet):

     So if you get road-pizzaed, should you have to pay in order to get yourself spatulaed off of the street?

   • 2018 March 13, Bruce Holbert, Whiskey: A Novel, MCD, →ISBN, page 4:

     Eddie spatulaed the patty onto a bun and extracted tomatoes, lettuce, and sliced pickles from a Tupperware.

2. (transitive) To strike with a spatula.
   • 1997 March 14, arnoldkim, “Best way to get yourself killed in anime”, in rec.arts.anime.misc‎ (Usenet):

     Or if you're a Ranma Character. I mean, they've been kicked/punched/thrown/hammered/spatulaed into the stratosphere enough times, you gotta figure they've developed a prretty high threshold of pain/injury.

   • 2000 February 15, erik, “*”, in alt.bored‎ (Usenet):

     i.....am............dying.....................i'vebeen..............spatula'd........................to.........death...

   • 2000 March 7, Justa Hillbilly, “Does this place get WILD???”, in alt.bored‎ (Usenet):

     I haven't spatulaed anyone in ages...

語源

From spatha (“spatula”) + -ula.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈspa.tʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈspaː.tu.la]

名詞

spatula f (genitive spatulae); first declension

1. a broad, flat piece.

   spatula porcina — "leg of pork".

2. a little palm frond.
3. (Late Latin) a scapula (shoulder blade).
4. (Late Latin) a spoon or spatula (kitchenware).

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

• spatulātus, spathulātus

関連する語

• spatha

派生した語

参照

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