英単語

pullulateの意味・使い方・発音

pullulate

英 ['pʌljʊleɪt] 美
  • vi.成長する;発芽する;生産する;充填する;増殖する。

語源


pullulate 急速に増殖する、大量に広がる

ラテン語のpullulare「成長する」、pullulus「小動物」、pullus「小動物」の短縮形からきており、語源的にはpullet「子馬」と同じである。

英語の語源


pullulate
pullulate: [17] The etymological notion underlying pullulate is of rapid ‘new growth’. It goes back ultimately to Latin pullus ‘young animal’, which also produced English pony and poultry and is distantly related to foal. From this was derived the verb pullulāre ‘grow, sprout’, whose past participle provided English with pullulate. This too originally meant ‘sprout’, a sense largely displaced since the 19th century by its metaphorical descendant ‘swarm, teem’.
=> foal, pony, poultry, pullet
pullulate (v.)
1610s, from Latin pullulatus, past participle of pullulare "put forth, grow, sprout, shoot up, come forth," from pullulus, diminutive of pullus "young animal" (see foal (n.)). Related: Pullulated; pullulating.

例文


1. As the going says:'seed always take root, pulululate ,and blossom out,and result everywhere.
「種はそこに根を下ろし、歯を生え、花を咲かせ、結果を出す」

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