VELUMとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin vēlum (“a cloth, covering, awning, curtain, veil”). Doublet of veil.

発音

• IPA: /ˈviː.ləm/, /ˈvɛl.əm/, /ˈveɪ.ləm/
• 韻: -iːləm

名詞

velum (plural vela or velums)

1. A thin membrane resembling a veil or curtain.
   1. (anatomy) The soft palate.
   2. (botany) A thin membrane partially covering the cluster of sporangia near the leaf base in quillworts and their extinct relatives.
   3. (mycology) A veil-like membrane of immature mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is torn by growth, to reveal the gills.
   4. (malacology) A locomotory and feeding organ provided with cilia found in the larval stage of bivalves.
   5. (zoology) An annular membrane, typically bordering a cavity, especially in certain molluscs, medusae, and other invertebrates.
   6. A delicate membrane found on certain protists.
2. (meteorology) An accessory cloud resembling a veil extending over a large distance; normally associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus.

派生語

• velar (adjective)

参照

• “velum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “velum”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

アナグラム

• mvule

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈweː.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈvɛː.lum]

名詞

vēlum n (genitive vēlī); second declension

1. a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning
   • a. 224, Ulpiānus, Dīgesta seu Pandectae‎, volume XXX, section 41.10:

     Sed sī cancellī sint vel vēla, lēgārī poterunt, nōn tamen fistulae vel castellī.

     But while bar-doors or their veils can be legated, not so water-pipes or water-basins.

2. (usually in the plural) the sail of a ship
   • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.2.92:

     Ausoniōs fīnēs cūr mea vēla volunt?

     Why do my sails incline toward Italian shores?
     (Ausonia: Ancient Greek name for lower Italy.)

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.103:

     velum adversa ferit

     strikes the sail head-on.

3. (anatomy) the soft palate

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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Further reading

• “velum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “velum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "velum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “velum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to put to sea: vela in altum dare (Liv. 25. 27)
    
  • (ambiguous) to set the sails: vela facere, pandere
    
  • (ambiguous) to set the sails: vela dare
    
  • (ambiguous) to furl the sails: vela contrahere (also metaph.)
    
  • (ambiguous) sails and rigging: vela armamentaque
    
• “velum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers