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発音

• IPA: /ˈæsɪnəs/

名詞

acinus (plural acini)

1. (botany) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

   Coordinate term: vesicle

2. (botany) A grape-stone.
3. (anatomy) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.
   • 1828, Jones Quain, Quain's elements of anatomy:

     Their smallest lobules were called acini, a term which has also been used to denote the saccular recesses in the lobules […]

派生語

語源

From the same root of acus (“needle, pin”), due to the presence of a sharp seed inside the grape, or perhaps, per De Vaan, because grape seeds are rather bitter.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈa.kɪ.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈaː.t͡ʃi.nus]

名詞

acinus m (genitive acinī); second declension

1. a berry, especially the grape.
2. the seed of a berry.

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生語

• dūracinus

派生した語

参照

Further reading

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