English Dictionary

Neptunian

IPA（発音記号）

/nɛpˈtjuː.nɪ.ən/

形容詞

ラテン文字 比較不可 広義 稀用 歴史的

(Roman mythology) Of or pertaining to Neptune, the Roman god of fresh water and the sea, the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon. / (by extension, rare) Of or pertaining to water or the sea.

日本語の意味

ローマ神話の海神ネプチューン（ギリシャ神話のポセイドン）の、淡水と海に関する（ネプチューンに関する） / 転じて、まれな用法として海や水そのものに関する

The museum's new exhibit displayed Neptunian artifacts and sculptures that evoked ancient sea rituals.

博物館の新しい展示では、ローマ神話の海神ネプトゥヌスに関する遺物や彫刻が並び、古代の海の儀式を思い起こさせた。

意味（1）

(Roman mythology) Of or pertaining to Neptune, the Roman god of fresh water and the sea, the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon.

The Tomb disburd'ning, whence the Ghoſt aroſe / Of great Achilles; Such when Thracian Foes / (The Prelude of thy Fates, Troy!) he o'rethrew, / And the white hair'd Neptunian Cycnus [i.e., Neptune's son] ſlew.

意味（2）

(by extension, rare) Of or pertaining to water or the sea.

Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom.

意味（3）

(by extension, geology) Formed by the action of water.

neptunian dyke

意味（4）

(by extension, geology, historical) Of, pertaining to, or supporting Neptunism (“a discredited theory that rocks were formed from the crystallisation of minerals in the early Earth's oceans”).

In the Neptunian ſyſtem it is ſuppoſed that the poſitions of the ſtrata have been determined, partly by the figure of the baſe or ground on which they have been depoſited, and partly by their depoſition having been a ſpecies of cryſtallization.