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語源

Borrowed from Latin rhonchus (“snoring”), from Ancient Greek ῥόγχος (rhónkhos) (Caelius Aurelianus), of imitative origin.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɹɒŋ.kəs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈɹɑŋ.kəs/
• 韻: -ɒŋkəs

名詞

rhonchus (plural rhonchi)

1. (medicine) A dry rattling sound heard during breathing, due to deposits in the bronchial tubes.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 699:

     “You have poisoned yourself again!” Humfried emitted an alarming rhonchus.

派生語

• rhonchial
• sibilant rhonchus

参照

語源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥόγχος (rhónkhos, “snoring, stertorous breathing”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈrʰɔŋ.kʰʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈrɔŋ.kus]

名詞

rhonchus m (genitive rhonchī); second declension

1. a snoring
   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata 3.82.29–31:

     Septunce multo deinde perditus stertit:
     Nos accubamus et, silentium rhonchis
     Praestare iussi, nutibus propinamus.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   1. (transferred senses) the croaking of a frog
      • Apul., Met. 1.9:

        Cauponem quoque vicinum atque ob id aemulum deformavit in ranam et nunc senex ille dolio innatans vini sui adventores pristinos in faece summissus officiosis ronchis raucus appellat.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   2. (figurative) a sneering, sneer, jeer

      Synonym: illūsiō

      • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata 1.3.5–6:

        Maiores nusquam rhonchi: iuvenesque senesque
        Et pueri nasum rhinocerotis habent.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

参考

• stertō

参照

• “rhonchus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press