cuneus

基本解释

Gradually, these pictographs became more stylized and wedge-like or cuneiform (Latin for wedge = cuneus) and adapted to write the local language, or Sumerian.
渐渐地，这些象形文字变得更加规范化，变成了楔形文字，适合于书写当地的语言，或者是苏美尔语。
Even the word coin, translates from the Latin "cuneus," meaning wedge, and was thusly named because early coins ressembled the wedges the dies used to coin coins.
甚至“coin”(硬币)一词，是从拉丁文“cuneus”翻译过来的，意思是“楔子”。之所以称之为“楔子”，是由于早期的硬币与用来铸造硬币的楔形模具很相似。
cuneus (cunei)
楔叶
Phalacroma cuneus
n. 楔形秃顶藻