nectarとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin nectar, from Ancient Greek νέκταρ (néktar, “nourishment of the gods”), from Proto-Indo-European *neḱ- (“perish, disappear”) + *-tr̥h₂ (“overcoming”), from *terh₂- (“to overcome, pass through, cross over”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈnɛk.tə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈnɛk.təɹ/
• 韻: -ɛktə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: nec‧tar

名詞

nectar (countable and uncountable, plural nectars)

1. (chiefly mythology) The drink of the gods. [from 16th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     They pourd in soveraine balme and Nectar good, / Good both for erthly med'cine and for hevenly food.

2. (by extension) Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice. [from 16th c.]
3. (botany) The sweet liquid secreted by flowers to attract pollinating insects and birds. [from 17th c.]

派生語

関連する語

• nectarine
• nectarous
• nectary

参考

• ambrosia
• pollen

動詞

nectar (third-person singular simple present nectars, present participle nectaring, simple past and past participle nectared)

1. (intransitive) To feed on nectar.
   • 2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year, page 123:

     On the lane below, more orangetips nectared on spring beauties and violets.

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “nectar”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

アナグラム

• Canter, Cretan, canter, carnet, centra, creant, recant, tanrec, trance

語源 1

From Ancient Greek νέκταρ (néktar), from Proto-Indo-European *néḱ-tr̥h₂, derived from the roots *neḱ- (“to perish”) and *terh₂- (“to overcome”).

名詞

nectar n sg (genitive nectaris); third declension

1. nectar
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.432–434:

     [...] aut cum liquentia mella
     stīpant et dulcī distendunt nectare cellās,
     aut onera accipiunt venientum, [...].

     […], or when [honeybees] press the liquid honey and swell the cells with sweet nectar, or gather the burdens of incoming [bees], [...].

語形変化

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem), singular only.

関連する語

• nectareus

派生した語

• → English: nectar
• French: nectar
• Italian: nettare
• Portuguese: néctar
• Spanish: néctar

参照

• “nectar”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nectar”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nectar”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nectar”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

動詞

nectar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of nectō