Grexとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈɡɹɛks/

名詞

grex (plural greges or grexes)

1. (biology) A multicellular aggregate of amoeba.
2. (horticulture) A kind of group used in horticultural nomenclature, applied to the progeny of an artificial cross from specified parents, in particular for orchids.

   Synonym: gx

派生語

• grex name
• gregaric

Further reading

• Grex (horticulture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɡrɛks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɡrɛks]

名詞

grex m (genitive gregis); third declension

1. (zoology) a group of smaller animals: a flock (of birds, sheep, etc.), a pack (of dogs, wolves, etc.), a swarm (of insects), etc.
2. (figurative) a similar group of other things

   Synonyms: cumulus, acervus, massa, mōlēs, multitūdō

3. a group of people: a crowd, a clique, a company, a band, a troop, etc.

   Synonyms: multitūdō, turba

4. (sports) a team of charioteers.
5. (theater) a troupe of actors.

使用する際の注意点

Properly, a herd or drove of larger animals form a pecus n, a iūmentum (when pulling carts), or an armenta (when pulling a plow), while smaller animals—especially domesticated pecudēs—form a grex. Its use for people is not necessarily pejorative in the way pecus is.

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

下位語

• pecus

派生語

• gregālis
• gregārius
• gregātim

関連する語

• gregō

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “grex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “grex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “grex”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a theatrical company: familia, grex, caterva histrionum
    
  • the manager: dominus gregis
    
  • to feed a flock (of goats): pascere gregem
    
  • the herds are grazing: greges pascuntur (Verg. G. 3. 162)
    
• "Pecus; Jumentum; Armentum; Grex" in H.H. Arnold's translation of Ludwig von Döderlein's Hand-Book of Latin Synonymes (1841), pp. 158–9.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “grĕx”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 268