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語源

From the genus name Hedera, in turn from Latin hedera (“ivy”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈhɛ.də.ɹə/

名詞

hedera (plural hederas)

1. (horticulture) Any Old World ivy of the genus Hedera
   • 2007 March 8, Jan Benzel, “Philadelphia Calls Off Winter for a Week”, in New York Times‎:

     The American Ivy Society hewed closely to the theme, exhibiting only hederas that come from Ireland or have an Irish name.

2. (typography) A fleuron depicting an ivy leaf.

関連する語

• hederaceous
• hederal

アナグラム

• Hardee, adhere, header, heared, rehead

語源

Unknown. One hypothesis derives it from Proto-Italic *hedezā, from earlier *xedezā, from *gʰed-es-eh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to seize, grasp, take”), which is the same source as Latin praeda, *hendō in prehendō, English get, and Ancient Greek χανδάνω (khandánō, “to get, grasp”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈhɛ.dɛ.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɛː.de.ra]

名詞

hedera f (genitive hederae); first declension

1. ivy (Hedera helix)

   Synonym: cissos

   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 3.767:

     Cūr hederā cīncta est? Hedera est grātissima Bacchō.

     Why has she been crowned with ivy? Ivy is most pleasing to Bacchus.
     (Sacerdos Liberi, elderly priestesses, wore ivy wreaths honoring Pater Liber – also known as Bacchus or the Greek Dionysus – during the ancient Roman festival of Liberalia.)

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

参照

• Buchi, Éva; Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–), “*/ˈɛder-a/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.

Further reading

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