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発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈtɹaɪtən/
• 韻: -aɪtən

固有名詞

Triton

1. (Greek mythology) A god of the sea, son of Poseidon.
   • 1699, Walter Harris, A Description of the King's Royal Palace and Gardens at Loo, London: R. Roberts, page 31:

     In the middle of each of theſe four little Gardens, there is a diſtinct Fountain, and in each of the Fountains there is placed a gilded Triton, ſitting on a gilded Sea-Horſe, or on a Sea-Goat, all upon Rockwork, like that in the middle Fountain[.]

2. (astronomy) The seventh moon of Neptune.
   • 1990 August, Rick Gore, “Neptune: Voyager's Last Picture Show”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 37:

     Six years earlier these two men—among the few interested in that distant speck of light—had detected methane and nitrogen on Triton's surface. At that time they suspected that Triton's frigid temperature might liquefy nitrogen but not be cold enough to freeze it.

派生語

参考

Further reading

• Triton (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Triton (moon) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• intort, rottin'

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈtriː.toːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈtriː.ton]

固有名詞

Trītōn m (genitive Trītōnis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Triton (mythological sea god)
2. a river and lake in Libya
3. the name of a ship

名詞

Trītōn m (genitive Trītōnis); third declension

1. (mythology) a merman
2. (zoology) a type of fish

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

参照

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