fibulaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin fībula (“buckle, clasp, pin”). The bone is so named because the shape it makes with the tibia resembles a clasp, the fibula being the pin.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfɪb.jʊl.ə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈfɪb.jəl.ə/
• 韻: -ɪbjʊlə

名詞

fibula (plural fibulae or fibulas or (obsolete) fibulæ)

1. An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin.
   • 1949, N. P. Toll, “Fibulae”, in Teresa G. Frisch, N. P. Toll, edited by M[ikhail] I[vanovich] Rostoftzeff, A. R. Bellinger, F. E. Brown, N. P. Toll, and C. B. Welles, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Part IV. The Bronze Objects: Fascicle 1. Pierced Bronzes, Enameled Bronzes, and Fibulae, number Final Report IV, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, Bow Fibulae, page 56:

     Most of the fibulae have a triangular molding above the notch, which probably contained wound wire. The crossbar is decorated either with a flat knob or with a Persian merlon.

2. (anatomy) The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg.

   Synonym: calf bone

派生語

関連する語

• fibularis

参考

• peroneal

参照

• “fibula”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “fibula”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈfiː.bʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈfiː.bu.la]

名詞

fībula f (genitive fībulae); first declension

1. (literal) clasp, buckle, brooch, pin, latchet, brace
2. (transferred sense) connection, bond, fetter
3. (surgery)
   1. surgical instrument for drawing together the lips of a wound
   2. stitching needle drawn through the prepuce

Inflection

First-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1564: “la cintura; la fibbia” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*fibella”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 489
• “fibula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fibula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fibula", 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)
• “fibula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fibula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fibula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin