clypeusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin clypeus, clipeus (“round shield”).

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈklɪ.pɪ.əs/, /klaɪˈpeɪ.əs/, /ˈklaɪ.peɪ.əs/, /ˈklaɪ.pi.əs/

名詞

clypeus (plural clypei)

1. (entomology, zootomy) The shield-shaped front part of an insect's head or a spider's cephalothorax.
   • 1990, Daniel Evan Weiss, The Roaches Have No King (Serpent's Tail 2001, p.16)

     Cuisinart stuck a human eyelash to his clypeus with saliva, twisted it into a handlebar mustache, and greeted citizens as they arrived at the rim of the sink.

   • 1996, Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe (Collins 1996, p. 14)

     When viewed from the front, the part of the carapace between the anterior eyes and the front edge of the carapace is called the clypeus.

派生語

名詞

clypeus m (genitive clypeī); second declension

1. alternative form of clipeus
2. (entomology, zootomy) clypeus
   • 1761, Nicolaus Poda von Neuhaus, Insecta musei Graecensis, page 6:

     CASSIDA. Antennæ subfiliformes, extrorsum crassiores. Elytra marginata. Caput sub thoracis clypeo plano reconditum.

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語形変化

Second-declension noun.

参照

• "clypeus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)