artereとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Late Middle English arterie, borrowing from Old French artaire and Latin artēria (“a windpipe; an artery”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρτηρῐ́ᾱ (artēríā, “windpipe; artery”).

名詞

artere (複数形 arteres)

1. (archaic, obsolete) sinew, ligament, tendon, artery

   c. 1599-1601, Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, scene iv, lines 81-83:

   My fate cries out
   And makes each petty artere in this body
   As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.