lepraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈlɛprə/

名詞

lepra (uncountable)

1. (medicine, archaic) Synonym of leprosy.
   • 1914, Henry Weightman Stelwagon, Treatise on Diseases of the Skin, 7th edition, page 914:

     Lepra is an endemic, chronic, malignant, constitutional disease, due to a specific bacillus.

2. (medicine, obsolete) Synonym of psoriasis.
   • 1864, William Tilbury Fox, Skin Diseases, page 43:

     Lepra and psoriasis are identical, though the two names are retained.

3. (botany, rare, obsolete) Any layer of algae, lichens, or other substance producing a leprosylike appearance on the surfaces of plants.
   • 1805, translation of Karl Ludwig Willdenow as The Principles of Botany and of Vegetable Physiology, p. 344:

     Lepra is frequently met with on the trunks, especially of young trees.

派生語

参照

• “lepra, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
• “lepra”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• APLer, Alper, Pearl, paler, parle, pearl, repla

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɫɛ.pra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈlɛː.pra]

名詞

lepra f (genitive leprae); first declension

1. psoriasis, similar skin disorders
2. (Late Latin) leprosy

使用する際の注意点

This word is usually plural in Classical Latin, but primarily used in the singular in Late Latin.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

• leprōsus

派生した語

参照

• “lepra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lepra”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.