英和和英

語源

By a metathesis of Old Latin *neuros, from Proto-Italic *(s)nēuros, a thematicization of Proto-Indo-European *snḗh₁wr̥ (“sinew, tendon”). Cognates include Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “tendon, string, nerve”), 古期英語 sinu (“tendon, nerve, sinew”). More at English nerve.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈnɛr.wʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈnɛr.vus]

名詞

nervus m (genitive nervī); second declension

1. (anatomy) a sinew, tendon, nerve, muscle
2. a cord, string or wire; string of a musical instrument; bow, bowstring; cords or wires by which a puppet is moved
3. the leather with which shields were covered
4. a thong with which a person was bound; fetter; prison
5. (of plants) a fiber/fibre
6. (figuratively) vigor, force, power, strength, energy, nerve

   Synonym: vīs

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “nervus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nervus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "nervus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “nervus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: omnes nervos in aliqua re contendere
    
  • to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: omnibus viribusor nervis contendere, ut
    
  • instrumental music: nervorum et tibiarum cantus
    
  • vocal and instrumental music: vocum et fidium (nervorum) cantus
    
  • to strike the strings of the lyre: pellere nervos in fidibus
    
• “nervus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nervus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

アナグラム

• vē̆rnus