Menarcheとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /mɛˈnɑː.ki/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈmɛˌnɑɹ.ki/, /məˈnɑɹ.ki/

名詞

menarche (plural menarches)

1. The onset of menstruation; a girl's first period.

   Synonym: menophania

   Antonym: menopause

   Coordinate terms: spermarche, thelarche

   • 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:

     How old is she? Nine? Ten? The menarche is not far off – a hint of a bosom, poor child.

   • 1978, Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine, Routledge, page 252:

     The most potent and indeed dangerous of all menstrual blood was the menarche, the first day's flow of the first menstruation of a virgin girl.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 102:

     Initiation is imagined, but the initiate is not the young girl in menarche, about to be wed to the moon, but a young man about to become a great hunter.

派生語

Further reading

• menarche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Hermance

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [mɛˈnar.kʰeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [meˈnar.ke]

名詞

menarchē f (genitive menarchēs); first declension

1. (medical) menarche

語形変化

First-declension noun (Greek-type).