mammaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈmæmə/
• 韻: -æmə

名詞

mamma (plural mammae or mammas)

1. (anatomy, plural mammae) The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
   • 1880, Herbert Spencer, The Study of Sociology, page 434:

     Either sex under special stimulations is capable of manifesting powers ordinarily shown only by the other […] Thus, to take an extreme case, the mammæ of men will, under special excitation, yield milk: there are various cases of gynecomasty on record, and in famines infants whose mothers have died have been thus saved.

2. (meteorology) An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera.

派生語

語源 2

Alternative spelling of mama; see further etymology there.

名詞

mamma (plural mammas)

1. Alternative spelling of mama: mother.
   • 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     The next day Charles had the child brought back. She asked for her mamma. They told her she was away; that she would bring her back some playthings.

派生語

Further reading

• “mamma”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmam.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmam.ma]

名詞

mamma f (genitive mammae); first declension

1. (anatomy) breast

   Puero isti da mammam.

   Give that boy of yours your breast [i.e. suckle him].

2. (anatomy) udder; pap
3. (anatomy, of animals) teat, dug

   mammam sugere ― to suck on a breast

4. (childish) mama (mother)

   Cum cibum ac potionem buas ac papas vocent, matrem mammam, patrem tatam.

   Since children call food and drink bua and papa, mother mamma and father tata.

5. (by extension) a protuberance on tree bark

使用する際の注意点

• This term was used especially of females, but also of males – although rarely:

  Mammas homo solus e maribus habet.

  Among male animals, man alone has breasts.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

参照

• “mamma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mamma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "mamma", 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)
• “mamma”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “mamma”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly