castoreumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• castorium

語源

From Latin castoreum, from Ancient Greek καστόριον (kastórion).

名詞

castoreum (countable and uncountable, plural castoreums or castorea)

1. The bitter exudate of the castor sacs of mature beavers, used as a scent mark, and as a tincture in some perfumes.

   Synonym: castor

   • 1835 November 28, Jon Pereira, “Lectures on Materia Medica, or Pharmacology, and General Therapeutics: Lecture IX: On Castoreum”, in London Medical Gazette, volume 17, page 299:

     One of the substances tried was castoreum. […] If I were to judge from my own experience, I would say castoreum has very little therapeutic power, for I have not seen much benefit from its employment in those cases to which this remedy is said to be adapted.

   • 1999, L. Sun, D. Müller-Schwarze, “Chemical Signals in the Beaver: One Species, Two Secretions, Many Functions?”, in Robert E. Johnston, Dietland Müller-Schwarze, Peter W. Sorenson, editors, Advances in Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, page 284:

     While the role of castoreum as a means of territorial advertisement has been extensively investigated and supported, the possibility of coding for sex information has not yet been excluded.

   • 2004, Christian V. Stevens, Roland Verhé, Renewable Bioresources: Scope and Modification for Non-Food Applications, page 257:

     Synthetic castoreums are now available, and can be as good as the natural fragrant.

   • 2010, Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez, “M7”, in Perfumes: The A–Z Guide, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 233:

     Real oud is complex material, with honey, tobacco, leaf, minty-fresh and castoreum animalic notes all mixed together.

2. (archaic) A hat made from beaver fur.

   Synonyms: beaver, castor

参考

• Castoreum (genus of Mesophelliaceae)

参照

• Heusinger, Carl Friedrich (1852), Meletemata quaedam de antiquitatibus castorei et moschi (in Latin), Marburg: Elwert, 31 pp.

アナグラム

• outscream

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [kasˈtɔ.re.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [kasˈt̪ɔː.re.um]

名詞

castoreum n (genitive castoreī); second declension

1. castoreum, castor sac exudate

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

参照

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