Kexとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 kex. Origin unknown; but compare Welsh cecys (“hollow stalks”) and Welsh cegid (“hemlock”), apparently from the same source as Latin cicūta (“hemlock”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /kɛks/
• 韻: -ɛks

名詞

kex (plural kexes)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:

     "I suppose you'll want a dish o' tay, or victuals of some sort, hey? […] I should be as dry as kex wi' travelling so far."

2. (obsolete, botany) A plant having such a stem; a weed, a kecksy.
3. (rare) A dry husk or covering.
   • 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, pages 100–101:

     On the bedside table a new package of cigarettes and a traveling clock had for neighbor a nicely wrapped box containing the green figurine of a girl skier which shone through the double kix.

語源

Unknown. Possibly from a Celtic and/or substrate language. (Can this etymology be sourced?)

発音

• IPA: /kɛks/, /kiks/

名詞

kex (plural kexis)

1. Any dried stem of a plant with a hollow interior.
2. (rare) A plant having a hollow stem; a member of the family Umbelliferae.

派生した語

• English: kex, kix
• Scots: kex

参照

• “kex(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-12.