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別の表記

• nosethirl (dialectal UK, otherwise archaic)

語源

From 中期英語 nostrille, from 古期英語 nosþyrel. Compare Old Frisian nosterle (“nostril”), modern West Frisian noaster (“nostrill”). Compare also Middle Low German noster (“nostril”), from Proto-Germanic *nustriz (“nostril”). By surface analysis, nose +‎ thirl (“hole”).

発音

• enPR: nŏs'trəl
  • (英国発音) IPA: /ˈnɒs.tɹɪl/, /ˈnɒs.tɹəl/
  • (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˈnɑ.stɹəl/
  • (General Australian) IPA: /ˈnɔs.tɹəl/
• 韻: -ɒstɹəl
• ハイフネーション: nos‧tril

名詞

nostril (plural nostrils)

1. Either of the two orifices located on the nose (or on the beak of a bird); used as a passage for air and other gases to travel the nasal passages.

   Synonyms: intake, nare, naris, nosehole

   • 1601, Plinius Secundus, translated by Philemon Holland, The Hiſtorie of the World. Commonly Called, the Naturall Hiſtorie […] ‎, London: Impenſis G. B, Book L, Chapter XIII, page 58:

     […] whether it bee that they bee broken winded and purſiue, or otherwiſe bitten and ſtung with venomous beaſts; in which caſes, there muſt be an injection made vp into the noſthrils, of the juice of Rue in wine.

派生語

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “nostril”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “nostril”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• nitrols, trilons