natesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈneɪtiːz/
• 韻: -eɪtiz

名詞

nates pl (plural only)

1. (anatomy, medicine) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
2. The buttocks.
   • 1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby:

     Enderby watched her warily as she lay prone, having kicked the clothes off the bed, her nates silvered by the Roman moonlight to the likeness of a meringue.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 3:

     He sat cross-legged on a damask pillow and scrutinized the pale puckered nates with the air of an epicure examining a fly in his vichyssoise.

3. (zoology) The umbones of a bivalve shell.

アナグラム

• Antes, Teans, Tenas, antes, etnas, neats, netas, senat, stane, stean

語源 1

名詞

natēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of natis (“rump; buttocks”)

語源 2

動詞

natēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of natō

参照

• “nates”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nates”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "nates", 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)
• “nates”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.