Quincunxとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin quīncunx.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkwɪŋkʌŋks/
• IPA: /ˈkwɪnkʌŋks/
• 韻: -ʌŋks

名詞

quincunx (plural quincunxes or quincunces)

1. An arrangement of five units with four forming the corners of a square and the fifth at the centre of the square, a pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice, playing cards, or dominoes.
2. (astrology) An angle of five-twelfths of a circle, or 150°, between two objects. [from 1647]
3. A Galton board.
   • 1998, Deborah J. Bennett, Randomness, Harvard University Press, page 104:

     In 1873–74 Sir Francis Galton (Charles Darwin’s cousin) designed an apparatus that he later named the quincunx.

4. (historical, numismatics) A bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at five-twelfths of an as. [from 1545]

派生語

Further reading

• quincunx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkʷiːŋ.kuːŋks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkʷiŋ.kuŋks]
• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkʷiːŋ.kʊŋks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkʷiŋ.kuŋks]

Because of Osthoff's Law, the length of the vowel in the second syllable is uncertain; see the note at uncia.

名詞

quīncū̆nx m (genitive quīncū̆ncis); third declension

1. five twelfths
2. the five on a die

語形変化

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

派生した語

• → English: quincunx
• → French: quinconce
• → German: Quinkunx
• → Italian: quinconce
• → Spanish: quincunce
• → Portuguese: quincunce

参照

• “quincunx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quincunx”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “quincunx”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • 5 per cent: quincunx (Pers. 5. 149)
    
  • 5 per cent: quincunces usurae
    
• “quincunx”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “quincunx”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin