diaphanous

• adj.透明な；繊細な；不明瞭な

dia-、通り抜ける。-すなわち、半透明、半透明のこと。

diaphanous

diaphanous: [17] Semantically, diaphanous is the ancestor of modern English see-through. It comes, via medieval Latin diaphanus, from Greek diaphanés, a compound adjective formed from dia- ‘through’ and the verb phaínein ‘show’. Originally in English it meant simply ‘transparent’, without its present-day connotations of delicacy: ‘Aristotle called light a quality inherent, or cleaving to a Diaphanous body’, Walter Raleigh, History of the World 1614.

diaphanous (adj.)

1610s, from Medieval Latin diaphanus, from Greek diaphanes "transparent," from dia- "through" (see dia-) + phainesthai, middle voice form (subject acting on itself) of phainein "to show" (see phantasm).

1. She was wearing a dress of diaphanous silk.

彼女はセミの羽のように薄い絹の服を着ている。

2.The breeze rustled leaves in a dry and diaphanous distance.

遠く、空気は乾燥して明るく、そよ風が木の葉をなびかせてサラサラと音を立てている。

3.Hence the rainforest 's high level of humidity，visible from the observation tower in diaphanous cloudletscanopy.

だから、雨林の空気は非常に湿潤で、観測所から見ると、山林は薄い雲に覆われている。