nymphaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, General American) IPA: /ˈnɪmfə/
• 韻: -ɪmfə

名詞

nympha (plural nymphae)

1. (entomology) A nymph.
2. (anatomy, now rare) Each of the labia minora.
3. Each of a pair of processes in certain bivalves, to which the ends of the external ligament are attached.

派生語

語源

Derived from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, nymph”). Compare with Latin lympha.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈnym.pʰa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈnim.fa]

名詞

nympha f (genitive nymphae); first declension

1. bride, mistress
2. young woman
3. (Greek mythology) nymph (mythical demigoddess)
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 88:

     Suscipit, o Gelli, quantum non ultima Tethys nec genitor nympharum abluit Oceanus

     He undertakes, O Gellius, so much as neither furthest Tethys nor Oceanus, father of nymphs, can cleanse

4. pupa or nymph of an insect

語形変化

First-declension noun.

下位語

• nympha marīna (“mermaid”)

派生語

• nymphālis
• nymphigena

関連する語

• nymphaea
• nymphēum

派生した語

参照

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