こん棒
解説 Definition
clubbed は club（こん棒で打つ、クラブ状にする）の過去形・過去分詞で、形容詞としてはこん棒状の、太く丸い形をしたという意味です。医学や生物の記述では、指先などが丸く太くなった状態を表すことがあります。
Thickened, enlarged, or rounded at the end so that it resembles a club. The adjective is used especially for fingers affected by a medical condition and for biological structures such as antennae.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 club「こん棒状にする」に -bed が付いた過去分詞形。形容詞では、こん棒のように先端が太く丸い形を表す。clubbed fingers「太く丸くなった指」、clubbed antennae「先端が膨らんだ触角」を典型例として覚える。語末の b を重ねる綴りにも注意する。
Start with the shape of a club: a handle with a thicker, rounded end. When a finger, antenna, or similar structure becomes enlarged at its tip, it can be described as clubbed. The word is the past participle of club, with the final b doubled before -ed: club becomes clubbed. Learn it through the combinations clubbed fingers and clubbed antennae. In medical language, clubbed fingers refers to a particular rounded enlargement, while in descriptions of insects, clubbed simply identifies the widening shape at the tip.
例文
The statue held a clubbed weapon in its right hand.
その像は右手にこん棒状の武器を持っていました。
The doctor noted the patient's clubbed fingers during the examination.
医師は診察中に患者のこん棒状になった指に気づきました。
The insect had clubbed antennae that widened at the tips.
その昆虫には、先端が広がったこん棒状の触角がありました。
clubbed の類義語・関連語
clubbed の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古ノルド語 klubba（太い棒）に由来し、英語の club（こん棒・棍棒）となった。clubbed はその過去分詞形で「こん棒状の・こん棒で打たれた」意。同じ「集まり」の意味も棒を囲む仲間に由来。関連語：club, clubfoot。
Clubbed is formed from club and the past-participial ending -ed, with the final consonant doubled. Club came into English from Old Norse klubba, referring to a heavy, thick stick. The adjective developed from the object’s characteristic outline and describes something whose end is thick or rounded like a club. It may also retain the verbal sense “struck with a club” in other contexts.
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