urinantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

urinant (not comparable)

1. (heraldry): Of a fish: oriented vertically, with the head to base and tail to chief, as if positioned for diving.

   Antonym: hauriant, haurient

   • 1866, John Edwin Cussans, The Grammar of Heraldry: Containing a Description of All the Principal Charges Used in Armory, the Signification of Heraldic Terms, and the Rules to be Observed in Blazoning and Marshalling ; Together with the Armorial Bearings of All the Landed Gentry in England Prior to the Sixteenth Century, page 84:

     On a chapeau gules, guarded ermine, a gurnet (fish) urinant proper.

   • 1992, Donald R. Mandich; Joseph Anthony Placek, Russian Heraldry and Nobility, Dramco:

     2) gules, in bend two fish, urinant and hauriant, respectively, argent, their fins "dark azure" (sic).

   • 2006, Encyclopedia Americana: Heart to India:

     Azure, three trout interlaced in triangle: the chiefmost naiant, one urinant in bend, and one haurient in bend sinister, all argent.

等位語

• hauriant
• naiant

関連する語

• urinator (廃れた用法)

Further reading

• attitude (heraldry) on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• untrain

Latin

動詞

ūrīnant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of ūrīnō