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名詞

claviger (plural clavigers)

1. One who carries a club; a club bearer.
   • 2013, Elon Dann, Clockwise to Titan:

     They goaded him into testing one of his planes, tricked him into throwing one out of the window to see if it would glide, and it did; it glided right into a claviger patrolling outside.

   • 2014, Matt Weber, The Dandelion Knight:

     But he was the claviger, and he took that duty seriously. And he never helped her. He followed her, to protect her, because that was his job.

2. (entomology) A group within genus Lasius (formerly considered a subgenera Acanthomyops) of bright yellow to orange species of ant that have 3 maxillary palps and give off a distinctive citronella odor when disturbed. The group name comes from their club-shaped palps.
   • 1968, Merle Wesley Wing, Taxonomic Revision of the Nearctic Genus Acanthomyops, page 81:

     Standing body hairs are relatively less numerous and longer in claviger.

   • 2007, Brian L. Fisher, Stefan P. Cover, Ants of North America: A Guide to the Genera, page 104:

     The workers of flavus group species are sometimes confused with claviger group workers, but can be distinguished by relatively dense pubescence all over the body, which creates a dull overall appearances.

   • 2012, Aaron M. Ellison, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Elizabeth J. Farnsworth, A Field Guide to the Ants of New England, page 179:

     All of the species of the claviger group are believed to be temporary social parasits of other Lasius species, but the actual hosts are not all known.

3. (entomology) A species of mosquito, Anopheles claviger.
   • 1949, Agriculture Handbook - Issue 152, page 117:

     Over much of its range claviger lays eggs without a blood meal, whereas forms requiring blood for egg laying have been observed on the Black Sea coast.

   • 1957, Mosquito Reprints: Matheson Collection - Volume 1, page 335:

     Claviger is Palearctic in distribution, extending from the British Isles to the Pamir Mountains of Turkestan and the Ob River of western Siberia.

   • 1984, A. R. Zahar, Vector Bionomics in the Epidemiology and Control of Malaria, page 98:

     The usual breeding places of claviger are springs and wells.

派生語

• clavigerous

語源 2

From Latin clāviger, from clāvis (“key”) + gerere (“to carry”).

名詞

claviger (plural clavigers)

1. One who carries the keys to a place; a keyholder.
   • 2010, Ronald Stansbury, A Companion to Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages (1200-1500):

     They were incensed that the claviger Bernat Mola not only slept in the church, but that by night he allowed “dishonest people and tricksters” in to gamble.

   • 2011, Helen J. Nicholson, The proceedings against the Templars in the British Isles, page lii:

     Hugh of Tadcaster remarked that he had been claviger before being admitted as a brother of the Order, and that he had asked the master – presumably he meant the grand commander of England - to admit him as a brother:

アナグラム

• cavegirl

語源 1

From clāva (“club, cudgel”) +‎ -ger (“bearing”).

形容詞

clāviger (feminine clāvigera, neuter clāvigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. club-bearing

使用する際の注意点

Used especially as an epithet of Hercules.

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

関連する語

• clāva

語源 2

From clāvis (“key”) +‎ -ger (“bearing”).

名詞

clāviger m (genitive clāvigerī); second declension

1. the key-bearer

使用する際の注意点

Used especially as an epithet of Janus, god of doors.

語形変化

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

関連する語

• clāvicārius
• clāvicula
• clāvis

参照

• “clāvĭger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “clāvĭger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “claviger”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “claviger”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “claviger”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers