Cerebrumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 cerebrum, from Latin cerebrum (“a brain; a skull”); see there for more.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɛ.ɹɪb.ɹəm/
• (General American) IPA: /səˈɹi.bɹəm/, /ˈsɛɹ.əb.ɹəm/
• 韻: -ɛɹɪbɹəm, -iːbɹəm

名詞

cerebrum (plural cerebra or cerebrums)

1. (neuroanatomy) The principal and most anterior part of the brain in vertebrates, which is located in the front area of the skull and divided into two hemispheres, left and right, separated by a fissure. In humans it is the largest part of the brain and is responsible for the integration of complex sensory functions and the initiation and coordination of voluntary activity, and the higher mental functions such as consciousness, thought, reason, emotion, and memory.

   Synonym: telencephalon

   Hyponyms: cerebral hemisphere, cerebral cortex

   Holonym: forebrain

派生語

関連する語

• cerebellum

参照

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

アナグラム

• cumberer

語源

Borrowed from Latin cerebrum, from Proto-Italic *kerazrom.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɛrəbrum/, /ˈsɛrəbrə/, /ˈsɛrəbər/

名詞

cerebrum

1. (medicine) brain

派生した語

• English: cerebrum

参照

• “cerēbre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “cerēbrum, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源

From Proto-Italic *kerazrom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂srom, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-. Compare Ancient Greek κᾰ́ρᾱ (kắrā, “a head, face”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkɛ.rɛ.brũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈt͡ʃɛː.re.brum]

名詞

cerebrum n (genitive cerebrī); second declension

1. a brain
   • ca. 60 BCE, Titus Lucretius Carus, De Rerum Natura , Book 6, Lines 802-3:

     carbonumque gravis vis atque odor insinuatur / quam facile in cerebrum, nisi aqua praecepimus ante!

     And how the heavy fumes of charcoal wind their way / Readily into the brain, unless beforehand of water we've drunk!

   1. (metonymic) understanding; anger, choler
2. (anatomy) a skull
3. (botany) an upper pith

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生語

• cerebellum (diminutive)
• cerebrālis (adjective)
• cerebrōsus (adjective)
• excerebrō (verb)

派生した語

参照

• “cerebrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cerebrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "cerebrum", 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)
• “cerebrum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cerebrum”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.