GENAとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin gena (“cheek”). Doublet of chin.

名詞

gena (plural genae)

1. (zoology) The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird.
2. (entomology) The part of the head to which the jaws of an insect are attached.
3. (entomology) The part of the head below the compound eyes of Diptera, or an analogous part of the head of larvae without compound eyes.

アナグラム

• Agne, Ange, Egan, Gean, agen, gean, nega-

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “géna”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

語源

From Proto-Italic *genā, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénu-, *ǵénus (“chin, jaw, cheek”). The declension was most likely changed to avoid confusion with genus.

Cognates include Ancient Greek γένῡ̆ς (génū̆s), Sanskrit हनु (hánu), Persian چانه (čâne), Tocharian A śanweṃ, Old Armenian ծնաւտ (cnawt), Lithuanian žandas, Welsh gen, and 古期英語 ċinn (English chin).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɡɛ.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈd͡ʒɛː.na]

名詞

gena f (genitive genae); first declension

1. cheek

   Synonym: bucca

   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes 3.12:

     Lacrimae perēdēre hūmōre exsanguēs genās.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. eye socket
3. (rare) eye or eyelid

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

• → English: gena (learned)
• Aromanian: dzeanã, dziane
• → Italian: gena
• Romanian: geană

参照

• “gena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "gena", 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)
• “gena”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.