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発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /sɪnˈtɪlə/
• 韻: -ɪlə

名詞

scintilla (複数形 scintillae または scintillas)

1. A small spark or flash.
   • 1890, Philosophical Magazine, page 364:

     If the action of the electrodynamic waves is so violent that, even without artificial electrification of the secondary conductor, scintillæ occur in its spark-gap, the aluminium leaves remain almost without change.

2. (figuratively) A small or trace amount.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:modicum

   a scintilla of hope

   • 1876 February, John Tyndall, “The Controversy on Acoustical Research”, in Popular Science Monthly:

     And, if I except the sagacious remark of General Duane which has been so curtly brushed aside, not a scintilla of light has been cast upon these causes by any researches ever published by the Lighthouse Board of Washington.

   • 1878 April, John Tyndall, “Illustrations of the Logic of Science IV”, in Popular Science Monthly:

     Now, it may be we have no scintilla of proof to the contrary, but reason is unnecessary in reference to that belief which is of all the most settled, which nobody doubts or can doubt, and which he who should deny would stultify himself in so doing.

   • 1990, William J. Brennan, Jr., Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health: Dissent Brennan, United States Supreme Court:

     Current medical practice recommends use of heroic measures if there is a scintilla of a chance that the patient will recover, on the assumption that the measures will be discontinued should the patient improve.

   • 2022 September 4, Helena Smith, “Mykonos has had its fill of champagne-fuelled tourism”, in The Observer‎^[1]:

     It’s 3pm at Rizes, a farm in the heart of Mykonos, and there is not a champagne bottle in sight, a sunbed to lounge on, or a scintilla of music that might drown the sound of the winds breezing through the nearby bamboo.

関連する語

• scintilla juris
• scintillate
• scintillation
• scintillator
• shine
• stencil
• tinsel

参照

Further reading

• “scintilla”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “scintilla”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

アナグラム

• Scillitan

Latin

語源

Most likely from Proto-Indo-European *ski-nto-, from *(s)ḱeh₁y- (“to gleam, shine”), which is the source of English shine.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /skinˈtil.la/, [s̠kɪn̪ˈt̪ɪlːʲä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ʃinˈtil.la/, [ʃin̪ˈt̪ilːä]

名詞

scintilla f (genitive scintillae); first declension

1. spark
   • 1st century AD, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt; Book VI, Chapter III

     Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.

     A small spark neglected has often roused to a great inferno.

2. glimmer

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

• scintillō

派生した語

Further reading

• “scintilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scintilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scintilla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)