Pyxisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪksɪs/

名詞

pyxis (複数形 pyxides)

1. A small box.
2. (botany) A capsule in which the lid separates from the top of the fruit to release the seeds.

   Synonym: pyxidium

3. A nautical compass.
4. (Christianity) The box in which ashes are stored for Ash Wednesday.
5. (anatomy) acetabulum.

Latin

別の表記

• puxis
• pixis (medieval)

語源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpyk.sis/, [ˈpʏks̠ɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpik.sis/, [ˈpiksis]

名詞

pyxis f (genitive pyxidis); third declension

1. A small box, for holding medicines or toiletries.

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

関連する語

• pyxidatus

派生した語

• → Catalan: pixis, píxide
• → English: pyxis, pyx
• → German: Pyxis

参照

• “pyxis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pyxis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pyxis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pyxis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “pyxis”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “pyxis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pyxis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin