COCHLEAとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin cochlea (“a snail”), from Ancient Greek κόχλιας (kókhlias, “a snail with a spiral shell”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒk.li.ə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈkoʊ.kli.ə/, /ˈkɑk.li.ə/

名詞

cochlea (plural cochleae or cochleas)

1. (anatomy) The complex, spirally coiled, tapered cavity of the inner ear of higher vertebrates, which contains the organ of Corti and in which sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses.
2. A spiral-shaped shell, especially that of a snail.

派生語

参照

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

語源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοχλῐ́ᾱς (kokhlĭ́ās, “snail with a spiral shell”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈko.kʰle.a/, [ˈkɔkʰɫ̪eä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈko.kle.a/, [ˈkɔːkleä]

名詞

cochlea f (genitive cochleae); first declension

1. snail

   in cochleam ― snail-shaped, in the shape of a spiral

   1. snailshell
2. (metonymically)
   1. spiral (form of a snailshell)
   2. screw of a press
   3. Archimedes' screw, water screw, screw pump (machine for drawing water by raising it)
   4. A kind of revolving door.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

派生語

• coc(h)lear
• coc(h)leārium
• coc(h)leātim
• coc(h)leātus

派生した語

参照

• “cochlea” on page 373 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

• “cochlea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cochlea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cochlea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cochlea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cochlea”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin