Castorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle French castor, from Old French castor (“beaver”), from Latin castor (“beaver”), from Ancient Greek κάστωρ (kástōr), from Doric Greek κάστον (káston, “wood”).

名詞

castor (countable and uncountable, plural castors)

1. A hat made from the fur of the beaver.
   • 1826, [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 135:

     I have been always noted for the jaunty manner in which I wear my castor— […]

2. A heavy quality of broadcloth for overcoats.
3. Castoreum (bitter exudate of mature beavers).
4. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ariadne, of Africa and Asia.

同意語

• (hat): beaver, castoreum (archaic)
• (cloth): beaver

派生語

関連する語

• castorette
• castoreum

参考

語源 2

Named from Greek mythology; see Castor and Pollux. The name pollux was given to another mineral with which it was always found.

名詞

castor (uncountable)

1. (mineralogy) A variety of petalite found in Elba.

同意語

• castorite

語源 3

Alternative spelling of caster, via cast +‎ -or (the Latinate varient of -er).

名詞

castor (plural castors)

1. (especially UK) Alternative spelling of caster, especially in its senses
   1. A pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture to allow it to be moved.
   2. A container with a perforated cap for sprinkling its contents, especially salt, pepper, etc.
      • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Ramadan”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 92:

        Mrs. Hussey soon appeared, with a mustard-pot in one hand and a vinegar-cruet in the other, having just broken away from the occupation of attending to the castors, and scolding her little black boy meantime.

派生語

• castor sugar
• castored
• castoring

参照

“castor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Castro, Cators, Croats, acrost, actors, co-star, costar, scroat, scrota, tarocs

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkas.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkas.tor]

名詞

castor m (genitive castoris); third declension

1. beaver

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

同意語

• fiber, beber (Late Latin)

派生語

• castoreātus
• castoreum
• castorīnātus
• castorīnus

関連する語

• Castor

派生した語

参考

• Castor

参照

• “castor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “castor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "castor", 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)
• “castor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “castor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “castor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

アナグラム

• Arctos