humusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: hyo͞o'məs, IPA: /ˈhjuːməs/
• 韻: -uːməs

名詞

humus (usually uncountable, plural humuses)

1. A large group of natural organic compounds, found in the soil, formed from the chemical and biological decomposition of plant and animal residues and from the synthetic activity of microorganisms.

上位語

• organic matter

Meronyms

• humic acid

派生語

参考

• compost
• mulch

語源 2

Borrowed from Turkish humus or Arabic حُمُّص (ḥummuṣ).

名詞

humus (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of hummus (“chickpea dip”)

アナグラム

• mu shu

語源

From Proto-Italic *homos, from earlier *xomos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰomós, from *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”), from earlier **dʰéǵʰoms through internal reconstruction. Cognates include Sanskrit क्ष (kṣa), Ancient Greek χθών (khthṓn), and Old Church Slavonic землꙗ (zemlja). Related to homō (“human being, man”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈhʊ.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈuː.mus]

名詞

humus f (genitive humī); second declension

1. ground, floor
2. earth, soil

   Synonyms: terra, solum, tellūs

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.559–560:

     [Triptolemus] prīmus arābit et seret et culta praemia tollet humō

     [Triptolemus] will be the first to plow and sow and take away the rewards from cultivated soil.
     (See Triptolemus, Demophon of Eleusis, and Celeus for the ancient Greek myths about a royal family who are presented as humble country folk in the Fasti.)

語形変化

Second-declension noun, with locative.

Locative used in the sense "on the ground". Irregular ablative singular humū once used by Varro.

派生語

• humilis
• humō

派生した語

参照

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