incusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin incūs (“anvil”).

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈɪŋ.kəs/
• 韻: -ɪŋkəs

名詞

incus (plural incudes)

1. (anatomy) A small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear.
   • 2010, Elaine N. Marieb, Katja Hoehn, Human Anatomy & Physiology, 8th edition, page 576:

     The tympanic cavity is spanned by the three smallest bones in the body: the auditory ossicles […] These bones, named for their shape, are the malleus (malʹe-us; "hammer"); the incus (ingʹkus; "anvil"); and the stapes (staʹpēz; "stirrup").

2. (meteorology) an accessory cloud, in the shape of an anvil which forms by spreading at the top of a cumulonimbus.

同意語

• (bone in the middle ear): anvil
• (cloud): anvil, thunderhead

関連する語

• incudal

アナグラム

• NICUs, usnic, U.S. Inc, Cusin, cu ins

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɪŋ.kuːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈiŋ.kus]

名詞

incūs f (genitive incūdis); third declension

1. anvil

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

語源 2

New Latin; from Spanish, from Quechua inka (“emperor, male of royal blood”).

形容詞

incus (feminine inca, neuter incum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Incan

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

関連する語

• Inca

参照

• “incus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “incus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "incus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• incus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “incus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “incus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin