heterocliteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈhɛtəɹəʊklaɪt/

形容詞

heteroclite (comparative more heteroclite, superlative most heteroclite)

1. (grammar) Irregularly declined or inflected.
2. (dated) Deviating from the ordinary rule; eccentric, abnormal.
   • 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 24:

     he was, on the contrary, as mercurial and sublimated a composition, […] as heteroclite a creature in all his declensions; […] with as much life and whim, and gaité de cœur about him, as the kindliest climate could have engendered and put together.

   • 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XLVIII, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 281:

     Nor could I have dreamed the heteroclite crew-men I had met aboard Tzadkiel's ship […]

参考

• eclectic

名詞

heteroclite (plural heteroclites)

1. (grammar) An irregularly declined or inflected word.
2. (linguistics) A word whose etymological roots come from distinct, different languages or language groups.
3. A person who is unconventional; a maverick.

同意語

• (unconventional person): free spirit, individualist, nonconformist; see also Thesaurus:maverick

関連する語

• heteroclitic

Further reading

• “heteroclite”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “heteroclite, a. and n.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

アナグラム

• heterotelic

形容詞

heteroclite

1. vocative masculine singular of heteroclitus