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語源

From 中期英語 boa, from Latin boa (“large snake”), a species of serpent mentioned in Pliny's Naturalis Historia (Natural History). The scarf was named attributively, for its resemblance to the snake when worn.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈbəʊ.ə/, (obsolete) /bɔː/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈboʊ.ə/
• 韻: -əʊə

名詞

boa (plural boas or (obsolete) boæ)

1. Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily Boinae, or family Boidae, including the boa constrictor and the emperor boa of Mexico.
2. A type of long scarf; typically made from synthetic or real feathers (or occasionally fur), and usually worn by being draped across the shoulders with the ends hanging low, sometimes also with a loop around the neck.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 220:

     Do not take up your boa as if it were the rope with which you meant to hang yourself; nor wrap your shawl round you as if it were your shroud.

派生語

参考

• Boidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Boa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

アナグラム

• Åbo, bao, AOB, oba, Abo, ABO, BAO, a.o.b., Oba., OAB, Bao, abo, OBA, A/B/O

名詞

boa f (genitive boae); first declension

1. A large snake native to Roman Italy.
2. A disease, the measles or smallpox.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

• → Middle Dutch: boa
  • Dutch: boa
    • → Indonesian: boa
• → Middle English: boa
  • English: boa
• → Middle French: boa
  • French: boa

語源 2

動詞

boā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of boō

参照

Further reading

• “boa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "boa", 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)