nocturnal
英 [nɒk'tɜːn(ə)l]
美 [nɑk'tɝnl]
語源
夜行性ラテン語のnocturnus、夜行性、語源的には夜と同じ、-urnは形容詞の接尾辞。
英語の語源
- nocturnal
- nocturnal: see night
- nocturnal (adj.)
- late 15c., from Old French nocturnal "nightly, nocturnal," or directly from Late Latin nocturnalis, from Latin nocturnus "belonging to the night," from nox (genitive noctis) "night," cognate with Old English neaht (see night) + -urnus, suffix forming adjectives of time. Nocturnal emission "involuntary ejaculation during sleep" first recorded 1813.
例文
- 1. The dormouse is a shy, nocturnal creature.
- ヘーゼルナッツマウスは、夜間に活動する臆病な動物である。
- 2.When there is a full moon,this nocturnal rodent is careful to stay in its burrow.
- 満月の夜、このような夜に活動するげっ歯類の動物は気をつけて洞窟から出てこない。
- 3. Nocturnal animals such as bats and owls only come out at night.
- 夜行動物、コウモリやフクロウは夜にしか出てこない.
- 4.The usual symptoms are dyspnea,and sometimes paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea.
- その一般的な症状は呼吸困難であり、時には発作性夜間呼吸困難を呈する。
- 5.I wander about the dread nocturnal countryside of this inhuman season.
- この非情な季節、この恐ろしい夜、私は郷野をさまよった。
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