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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈfəʊmiːz/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈfoʊ.miːz/

名詞

fomes (plural fomites)

1. (obsolete, medicine) The morbid matter created by a disease.
   • 1773, Gentleman's Magazine, number 43, page 554:

     If this putrid ferment could be more immediately corrected, a stop would probably be put to the flux, and the fomes of the disease likewise removed.

2. (archaic, medicine) Synonym of fomite: a substance able to communicate infection between people.

   Toys are common fomites.

   • 1803, Medical & Physical Journal, number 10, page 213:

     I cannot say that I have known it spread from fomites.

3. (archaic, figurative) Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious.
   • 1658, John Owen, Of Temptation, page 126:

     Naturall tempers... prove a great Fomes of sinne.

参照

• “fomes”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “fomes, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1897.

アナグラム

• MEFOs

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈfoː.mɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈfɔː.mes]

名詞

fōmes m (genitive fōmitis); third declension

1. tinder, kindling
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneid 1.174–176:

     Ac prīmum silicī scintillam excūdit Achātēs,
     succēpitque ignem foliīs, atque ārida circum
     nūtrīmenta dedit, rapuitque in fōmite flammam.

     And Achates first struck a spark from flint, and caught the fire on leaves, and so he spread dry fuel around, and hastened a flame within the tinder.

2. (Medieval Latin) tinderbox
3. (New Latin, medicine) fomite

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

参照

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