オダマキ
解説 Definition
columbine は、花のオダマキを指す名詞です。日本語のカタカナ語としては一般的ではなく、英語では庭や植物の説明で使われることが多い語です。
A columbine is a flowering plant of the genus Aquilegia, known for its distinctive nodding flowers with backward-pointing spurs. Columbines grow wild or in gardens and occur in various colors, including purple, blue, red, yellow, and white.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
columbine はラテン語 columba「鳩」に由来し、オダマキの後ろへ伸びる距が集まった姿を鳩の群れに見立てた花名です。鳥そのものではなく、庭や野山で咲く花を指します。purple columbine、plant columbine、wild columbine のように、色・栽培・野生の語と組み合わせて覚えましょう。
Connect columbine with Latin columba, “dove.” The flower’s cluster of backward-pointing spurs was traditionally imagined as a group of doves, which explains the name without relying on a sound trick. Picture a purple columbine beside a garden path, with each flower hanging slightly downward and its spurs extending behind it. Useful combinations include wild columbine, purple columbine, plant columbine, and columbine flowers. The word usually appears in gardening, botany, and nature writing. Remember that it names an Aquilegia plant, not a dove, although the visual comparison with doves lies behind the name.
例文
A purple columbine bloomed near the garden path.
庭の小道の近くに紫色のオダマキが咲きました。
She planted columbine in a quiet corner of the yard.
彼女は庭の静かな一角にオダマキを植えました。
The guide pointed out a wild columbine on the hillside.
ガイドは丘の斜面にある野生のオダマキを指し示しました。
columbine の類義語・関連語
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columbine の語源・成り立ち Etymology
columbine はラテン語 columba「鳩」にさかのぼり、中世ラテン語 columbina を経て花の名になりました。花弁の後ろの距が集まった姿が鳩の群れに見えることからで、columbarium や columbid と同根だと知ると、「鳩のような花」という名づけだと分かります。
Columbine comes through Middle English and Old French from Medieval Latin columbina, a feminine form related to Latin columbinus, “dovelike,” and columba, “dove.” The flower was named from a traditional resemblance between its grouped spurs or floral parts and a circle of doves. Other learned words based on columba include columbarium, originally a structure with niches resembling dovecotes, and columbid, a zoological term for birds of the pigeon and dove family.
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