การใช้คำว่า sea-horse ในภาษาอังกฤษ อ้างตามพจนานุกรมอ็อกฟอร์ดเล่มใหญ่
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หนึ่งคือ
วอลรัส ซึ่งอาจจะเรียกว่า Walrus หรือ seahorse หรือ horse-whale หรือ morse
สอง narwhal ปลาวาฬนาร์วาล หรือ ปลาวาฬยูนิคอร์น
สาม สัตว์ในเทพนิยายกรีกโบราณ Hippocampus ฮิปโปกัมปุส หรือ ม้าสมุทร หรือ อัศวสมุทร
สี่ ม้าน้ำ Hippocampus species
ห้า ปลาจำพวก The acanthopterygian fish อย่างเช่น ปลา Agriopus torvus (Cent. Dict.). หรือ flying sea-horse หรือ winged sea-horse:
หรือปลาใน ลำดับ หรือ อนุลำดับa the order or sub-order Pegasidæ.
หก ฮิปโปโปเตุส Hippopotamus หรือ ม้าคลอง หรือ ม้าแม่น้ำ ปัจจุบันเลิกใช้ในความหมายนี้แล้ว
เจ็ด หมายถึง คลื่นทะเลใหญ่สีขาว คล้ายม้าขาววิ่งในจินตนาการ
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[Cf. G. seepferd, seeross.]
1.1 The walrus. [Cf. horse-whale, horse n. 28 b.]
c 1475 Pict. Voc. in Wr-Wülcker 765/2 [Nomina piscium marinorum] Hoc rosina, a sehors. 1585 Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 16 Daulphins, Seahorse, Selchs with oxin ee, And Merswynis, Pertrikis als of fishes race. 1613 Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 748 note, Some call the Morse a Sea horse. a 1682 Sir T. Browne Of Greenland Wks. 1835 IV. 375 The stomachs of sea horses or morses. 1877 W. Jones Finger-ring 148 A ring made of a sea-horse's tooth.
¶By extension apparently applied to the narwhal.
1674 tr. Martiniere's Voy. 115 The Horn of this Sea-horse, was full ten foot long,‥wreathed‥tapering.
2.2 A fabulous horse-like marine animal.
As represented in heraldry (and formerly in pageants) it has the fore-parts of a horse and the tail of a fish, like the steeds (equi bipedes, Verg. Georg. iv. 389) drawing the chariots of Neptune and Proteus as depicted in ancient paintings.
1587 Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1340/1 Before the which [sc. the mint] there was a huge and monstrous sea⁓horsse of twentie foot high. 1648 Herrick Hesper., His Cavalier, That dares bestride The active sea-horse, and‥Through that huge field of waters ride. a 1700 Evelyn Diary 27 Feb. 1644, In the third is Neptune sounding his trumpet, his charriot drawne by sea-horses. 1761 Ann. Reg. 238 The fishmongers pageants consisted of‥two mairmaids and two Sea-horses. 1780 Edmondson Heraldry II. Gloss., Sea-Horse, the upper part is formed like the horse, with webbed feet, and the hinder part ends in a fish's tail. 1874 Black Pr. Thule 9 The black sea-horse that had been seen in Loch Suainabhal. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 559/1 s.v. Poseidon, Sometimes he was represented riding a bull, a horse, or a sea-horse.
3. a.3.a = hippocampus 2.
1589 Rider Bibl. Scholast. 1723 A sea horse, hippocampa. 1721 Bradley Philos. Acc. Wks. Nat. 69, Fig. 111. The Shell-Fish call'd the Sea-Horse, found upon the Coast of Italy. 1862 Ansted Channel Isl. ii. ix. 213 The curious little sea horse (hippocampus brevirostris).
b.3.b The acanthopterygian fish Agriopus torvus (Cent. Dict.). flying sea-horse or winged sea-horse: a fish of the order or sub-order Pegasidæ.
1854 A. Adams, etc. Man. Nat. Hist. 83 The Pegasi, or Flying Sea-Horses. Ibid. 94 Winged Sea-Horses (Pegasidæ).
†4.4 The hippopotamus. Obs.
1600 J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa Introd. 30 The teeth of sea⁓horses: which creatures are commonly found in the riuers of Nilus, Niger, &c. 1678 Dryden All for Love i. 1 Sea-Horses floundring in the slimy mud. 1700 C. Leigh Nat. Hist. Lanc. etc. i. 183 A young Hippopotamus or Sea-Horse. 1759 tr. M. Adanson's Voy. Senegal 133 The hippoptami [sic] or sea horses, are common.
5.5 A large white-crested wave; cf. white horse, horse n. 24 b.
1877 N.W. Linc. Gloss., Sea-dogs, Sea-hosses, rough waves in the Humber and Trent. 1886 A. Pember Slipping away i, Alice's eyes are fixed on the white sea-horses.
6.6 attrib. (senses 1 and 4), as sea-horse fat, sea-horse hide, sea-horse leather, sea-horse oil, sea-horse skin, sea-horse tooth.
1764 Ann. Reg. ii. 12 The whale and the *sea horse fat they also boil with roots.
1601 Holland Pliny vi. xxix. I. 144 There may a man have plentie of the *Sea-horse hides.
a 1682 Sir T. Browne Comm.-pl. Bks. Wks. 1835 IV. 396 A girdle of *sea-horse leather.
1820 Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. I. 507 On this adventure, 22 tons of *Sea-horse oil‥were obtained.
1626 Bacon Sylva §964 Rings of *Sea-Horse Teeth. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Sea-horse tooth, a name given to the teeth of the walrus, and of the hippopotamus, which yield ivory.
From Oxford English Dictionary
+++++ Seahorse and horsefish in the history of English language +++++
พบว่าสามารถหมายถึง สัตว์ ได้ถึง หกจำพวกด้วยกันครับ
หนึ่งคือ
วอลรัส ซึ่งอาจจะเรียกว่า Walrus หรือ seahorse หรือ horse-whale หรือ morse
สอง narwhal ปลาวาฬนาร์วาล หรือ ปลาวาฬยูนิคอร์น
สาม สัตว์ในเทพนิยายกรีกโบราณ Hippocampus ฮิปโปกัมปุส หรือ ม้าสมุทร หรือ อัศวสมุทร
สี่ ม้าน้ำ Hippocampus species
ห้า ปลาจำพวก The acanthopterygian fish อย่างเช่น ปลา Agriopus torvus (Cent. Dict.). หรือ flying sea-horse หรือ winged sea-horse:
หรือปลาใน ลำดับ หรือ อนุลำดับa the order or sub-order Pegasidæ.
หก ฮิปโปโปเตุส Hippopotamus หรือ ม้าคลอง หรือ ม้าแม่น้ำ ปัจจุบันเลิกใช้ในความหมายนี้แล้ว
เจ็ด หมายถึง คลื่นทะเลใหญ่สีขาว คล้ายม้าขาววิ่งในจินตนาการ
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และข้อมูลจาก Oxford English Dictionary
[Cf. G. seepferd, seeross.]
1.1 The walrus. [Cf. horse-whale, horse n. 28 b.]
c 1475 Pict. Voc. in Wr-Wülcker 765/2 [Nomina piscium marinorum] Hoc rosina, a sehors. 1585 Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 16 Daulphins, Seahorse, Selchs with oxin ee, And Merswynis, Pertrikis als of fishes race. 1613 Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 748 note, Some call the Morse a Sea horse. a 1682 Sir T. Browne Of Greenland Wks. 1835 IV. 375 The stomachs of sea horses or morses. 1877 W. Jones Finger-ring 148 A ring made of a sea-horse's tooth.
¶By extension apparently applied to the narwhal.
1674 tr. Martiniere's Voy. 115 The Horn of this Sea-horse, was full ten foot long,‥wreathed‥tapering.
2.2 A fabulous horse-like marine animal.
As represented in heraldry (and formerly in pageants) it has the fore-parts of a horse and the tail of a fish, like the steeds (equi bipedes, Verg. Georg. iv. 389) drawing the chariots of Neptune and Proteus as depicted in ancient paintings.
1587 Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1340/1 Before the which [sc. the mint] there was a huge and monstrous sea⁓horsse of twentie foot high. 1648 Herrick Hesper., His Cavalier, That dares bestride The active sea-horse, and‥Through that huge field of waters ride. a 1700 Evelyn Diary 27 Feb. 1644, In the third is Neptune sounding his trumpet, his charriot drawne by sea-horses. 1761 Ann. Reg. 238 The fishmongers pageants consisted of‥two mairmaids and two Sea-horses. 1780 Edmondson Heraldry II. Gloss., Sea-Horse, the upper part is formed like the horse, with webbed feet, and the hinder part ends in a fish's tail. 1874 Black Pr. Thule 9 The black sea-horse that had been seen in Loch Suainabhal. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 559/1 s.v. Poseidon, Sometimes he was represented riding a bull, a horse, or a sea-horse.
3. a.3.a = hippocampus 2.
1589 Rider Bibl. Scholast. 1723 A sea horse, hippocampa. 1721 Bradley Philos. Acc. Wks. Nat. 69, Fig. 111. The Shell-Fish call'd the Sea-Horse, found upon the Coast of Italy. 1862 Ansted Channel Isl. ii. ix. 213 The curious little sea horse (hippocampus brevirostris).
b.3.b The acanthopterygian fish Agriopus torvus (Cent. Dict.). flying sea-horse or winged sea-horse: a fish of the order or sub-order Pegasidæ.
1854 A. Adams, etc. Man. Nat. Hist. 83 The Pegasi, or Flying Sea-Horses. Ibid. 94 Winged Sea-Horses (Pegasidæ).
†4.4 The hippopotamus. Obs.
1600 J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa Introd. 30 The teeth of sea⁓horses: which creatures are commonly found in the riuers of Nilus, Niger, &c. 1678 Dryden All for Love i. 1 Sea-Horses floundring in the slimy mud. 1700 C. Leigh Nat. Hist. Lanc. etc. i. 183 A young Hippopotamus or Sea-Horse. 1759 tr. M. Adanson's Voy. Senegal 133 The hippoptami [sic] or sea horses, are common.
5.5 A large white-crested wave; cf. white horse, horse n. 24 b.
1877 N.W. Linc. Gloss., Sea-dogs, Sea-hosses, rough waves in the Humber and Trent. 1886 A. Pember Slipping away i, Alice's eyes are fixed on the white sea-horses.
6.6 attrib. (senses 1 and 4), as sea-horse fat, sea-horse hide, sea-horse leather, sea-horse oil, sea-horse skin, sea-horse tooth.
1764 Ann. Reg. ii. 12 The whale and the *sea horse fat they also boil with roots.
1601 Holland Pliny vi. xxix. I. 144 There may a man have plentie of the *Sea-horse hides.
a 1682 Sir T. Browne Comm.-pl. Bks. Wks. 1835 IV. 396 A girdle of *sea-horse leather.
1820 Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. I. 507 On this adventure, 22 tons of *Sea-horse oil‥were obtained.
1626 Bacon Sylva §964 Rings of *Sea-Horse Teeth. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Sea-horse tooth, a name given to the teeth of the walrus, and of the hippopotamus, which yield ivory.
From Oxford English Dictionary