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語源

From Old French corrosif.

発音

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹəʊsɪv/

形容詞

corrosive (comparative more corrosive, superlative most corrosive)

1. Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
2. Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii]:

     Care is no cure, but corrosive.

3. destroying or undermining something gradually.

派生語

• corrosive sublimate

関連する語

名詞

corrosive (複数形 corrosives)

1. That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
2. Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kor.roːˈsiː.u̯e/, [kɔrːoːˈs̠iːu̯ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kor.roˈsi.ve/, [korːoˈs̬iːve]

形容詞

corrōsīve

1. vocative masculine singular of corrōsīvus