merusn.

Brit.

/ˈmɛrəs/, U.S.

/ˈmɛrəs/

Forms: 1700s– meros Brit.

/ˈmɛrɒs/, U.S.

/ˈmɛˌrɑs/, 1800s– merus.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek μηρός.

Etymology: < ancient Greek μηρός thigh (compare mero- comb. form²; probably originally with reference to the thighs of animals as an element of burnt offerings) < the Indo-European base also of classical Latin membrum (see member n. and adj.), and (with the sense ‘piece of meat’ or ‘flesh’) Sanskrit māṃsa, Early Irish mír, Gothic mimz, Armenian mis, Old Church Slavonic męso, Russian mjaso, and Albanian mish.Vitruvius uses classical Latin femur in sense 2, giving μηρός as the Greek equivalent; the Greek word does not appear to be recorded elsewhere in this sense.

†a. Anatomy. The thigh. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > thigh > [noun]

thighc725

merus1797

1797 W. Turton Med. Gloss. 441 Meros, the thigh.

1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Meros, the same as Merus, the thigh.

b. Zoology. = meropodite n.

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1855 C. Spence Bate in Rep. Brit. Assoc. (1856) 33 The third leaf-like plate consists of two joints, the fourth and the fifth, the meros and the carpus.

1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea iv. 43 The afflicted naturalist has for many years had to deal with these seven under the following names:—Coxa, basis, ischium, merus, carpus, propodus, dactylus.

1927 Capita Zoologica 2 v. 7 The inner lower border of the merus of the 1st leg bears..10–12 small teeth.

1977 Zool. Mededelingen 52 193 The merus of the third maxilliped has the ventral surface slightly convex in the inner half, concave in the outer.

1992 M. Stachowitsch Invertebr. 467/1 Merus (meropod, meropodite), fourth segment of appendage (thoracopod).

2. Architecture. The plane surface between the grooves of a triglyph.

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1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 588 Meros; the middle part of a trigliph.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1004 Meros, the plane face between the channels in the triglyphs of the Doric order.

1850 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. iii. 283/2 Merus, the plain surface between the channels of a triglyph.

1999 J. S. Curl Dict. Archit. 417/1 Meros, merus, plain surface of a triglyph between the glyphs.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	merus
释义	merusn. Brit. /ˈmɛrəs/, U.S. /ˈmɛrəs/ Forms: 1700s– meros Brit. /ˈmɛrɒs/, U.S. /ˈmɛˌrɑs/, 1800s– merus. Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek μηρός. Etymology: < ancient Greek μηρός thigh (compare mero- comb. form²; probably originally with reference to the thighs of animals as an element of burnt offerings) < the Indo-European base also of classical Latin membrum (see member n. and adj.), and (with the sense ‘piece of meat’ or ‘flesh’) Sanskrit māṃsa, Early Irish mír, Gothic mimz, Armenian mis, Old Church Slavonic męso, Russian mjaso, and Albanian mish.Vitruvius uses classical Latin femur in sense 2, giving μηρός as the Greek equivalent; the Greek word does not appear to be recorded elsewhere in this sense. 1. †a. Anatomy. The thigh. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > thigh > [noun] thighc725 merus1797 1797 W. Turton Med. Gloss. 441 Meros, the thigh. 1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Meros, the same as Merus, the thigh. b. Zoology. = meropodite n. ΚΠ 1855 C. Spence Bate in Rep. Brit. Assoc. (1856) 33 The third leaf-like plate consists of two joints, the fourth and the fifth, the meros and the carpus. 1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea iv. 43 The afflicted naturalist has for many years had to deal with these seven under the following names:—Coxa, basis, ischium, merus, carpus, propodus, dactylus. 1927 Capita Zoologica 2 v. 7 The inner lower border of the merus of the 1st leg bears..10–12 small teeth. 1977 Zool. Mededelingen 52 193 The merus of the third maxilliped has the ventral surface slightly convex in the inner half, concave in the outer. 1992 M. Stachowitsch Invertebr. 467/1 Merus (meropod, meropodite), fourth segment of appendage (thoracopod). 2. Architecture. The plane surface between the grooves of a triglyph. ΚΠ 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 588 Meros; the middle part of a trigliph. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1004 Meros, the plane face between the channels in the triglyphs of the Doric order. 1850 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. iii. 283/2 Merus, the plain surface between the channels of a triglyph. 1999 J. S. Curl Dict. Archit. 417/1 Meros, merus, plain surface of a triglyph between the glyphs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1797
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