Murexとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin murex.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈmjʊɚ.ɛks/

名詞

murex (plural murexes or murices)

1. Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods.
   • 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 25:

     The bank of crushed murex shell that Professor Bosanquet found here, and again at Palaikastro, in company with a whole mass of Kamáres pottery, shows that the men of Sidon and Tyre were not the first to practise the dying of purple.

   • 1991, John Montroll, Robert J. Lang, Origami Sea Life, page 56:

     The murexes (family Muricidae) are one of the most beautiful and sought-after families by shell collectors.

上位語

• muricine

下位語

• woodcock murex

派生語

アナグラム

• muxer, rumex

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmuː.rɛks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmuː.reks]

名詞

mūrex m (genitive mūricis); third declension

1. A shellfish used as a source of the dye Tyrian purple; the purple-fish
2. Tyrian purple, the purple dye, a purple color, made from the juice of the purple-fish
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.107:

     induerat Tyriō bis tīnctam mūrice pallam

     He had put on his mantle, twice dyed with Tyrian purple.

3. A sharp murex shell used as a bridle bit.
4. A pointed rock or stone.
5. A caltrop.
6. An iron spike.

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

• mūricātus
• mūriculus
• mūriculātus

派生した語

• English: muriciform, muricite, muricoid
• Irish: maorach
• Catalan: múrex
• Italian: murice
• Portuguese: múrice
• Spanish: múrice
• Translingual: Murex

参照

Further reading

• “murex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “murex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “murex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Rich, Anthony (1849), “murex”, in The Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary and Greek Lexicon‎, London: Longmans, page 435
• “murex”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin