Molyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈməʊli/
• 韻: -əʊli

名詞

moly (countable and uncountable, plural molies)

1. (Greek mythology) A magic herb or plant used by Odysseus to overcome Circe.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection iii:

     It excels Homers moly, cures this, falling sickness, and almost all other infirmities.

   • 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 114:

     Or, propt on beds of amaranth and moly, / How sweet (while warm airs lull us, blowing lowly,)

   • 1980, Homer, translated by Walter Shrewing, The Odyssey, Oxford, published 1998, page 120:

     So spoke the Radiant One; then gave me the magic herb, pulling it from the ground and showing me in what form it grew; its root was black, its flower milk-white. Its name among the gods is moly.

   • 2018, Madeline Miller, Circe, Bloomsbury 2019, p. 113:

     I would need all the secret herbs of Dicte […] . I would need as well the rest of my moly stores.

2. Any plant associated with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly.

語源 2

Clipping of molybdenum.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈmɒli/
• 韻: -ɒli
• Homophone: molly

名詞

moly (uncountable)

1. (informal) Molybdenum.
   • 1990, John Wegg, General Dynamics Aircraft and Their Predecessors, page 55:

     The fuselage and tail unit were constructed of welded chrome-moly steel tubing, fabric covered, with two seats in one elongated open 'bathtub' cockpit.

2. (slang) Molybdenum grease.

派生語

• moly cow

アナグラム

• mylo-

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmoː.ly/, [ˈmoːlʲʏ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmo.li/, [ˈmɔːli]

名詞

mōly n (genitive mōlyos); third declension

1. Moly, a magic herb used by Odysseus to ward him from the spells of Circe.
2. A plant comparable with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly.

語形変化

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant, neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

派生した語

• → English: moly

参照

• “moly”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “moly”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “moly”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• moly in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 990.