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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪlɛks/

名詞

silex (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 silexes または silices)

1. (archaic) Flint.
2. A finely ground relatively pure form of silicas used as a paint filler etc.
   • 1864, Fitz-Hugh Ludlow, The Atlantic:

     Every little cold gust that I observed in the Colorado country had this corkscrew character […] an auger, of diameter varying from an inch to a thousand feet, capable of altering its direction so as to bore curved holes, revolving with incalculable rapidity, and armed with a cutting edge of silex.

アナグラム

• lexis

Latin

語源

Uncertain. Sometimes compared to silīgō and siliqua, both of unclear origin as well. De Vaan suggests that these are derivatives of silex, which have undergone a semantic shift “pebble” > “small pod”.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.leks/, [ˈs̠ɪɫ̪ɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.leks/, [ˈsiːleks]

名詞

silex m or f (genitive silicis); third declension

1. pebble, stone, flint

   Synonyms: lapis, saxum, petra

2. rock, crag
3. lava

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

参照

• “silex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “silex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• silex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to pave a road: viam sternere (silice, saxo)
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “silex, -icis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 564