unguisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin unguis (“nail, claw, hoof”). Doublet of onyx.

発音

• IPA: /ˈʌŋ.ɡwɪs/

名詞

unguis (plural ungues or unguises)

1. (zoology) The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage.
2. One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect.
3. (botany) The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; an ungula.
4. (historical) An old measure equal to the length of the nail of the little finger.

派生語

• subunguis

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈʊŋ.ɡʷɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈuŋ.ɡʷis]

名詞

unguis m (genitive unguis); third declension

1. (anatomy) fingernail, toenail
2. talon, claw
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.257:

     Iamque satur nigrīs longum rapit unguibus hydrum

     And now, having eaten his fill [of figs], [the raven] snatches up a long water-snake in his black talons.

3. hoof

語形変化

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).

派生語

• ad unguem
• in unguem
• unguicula
• ungula

派生した語

参照

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