moleculaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

molecula (plural moleculae)

1. (now historical) A molecule; a small particle of something. [from 18th c.]
   • 1751, John Locke, Elements of Natural Philosophy, section XII:

     Smal bodies, of Atoms, out of whose various combinations bigger molleculæ are made.

   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009:

     They acted by the ancient organized states in the shape of their old organization, and not by the organic moleculae of a disbanded people.

語源

Derived from mōlēs (“mass”) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix). Coined by Pierre Gassendi in 1641. Modern meaning first used by Amedeo Avogadro in 1811.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [moːˈɫeː.kʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [moˈlɛː.ku.la]

名詞

mōlēcula f (genitive mōlēculae); first declension

1. (New Latin, chemistry) molecule

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• “molecula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• molecula in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016