エレキテル

noun

hand-operated electric generator (Edo-period medical device)

Refers specifically to the static electricity generator introduced by Dutch traders, used in Edo-period medicine. Now a historical term.

from Dutch elektriciteit

• エレキテルは江え戸ど時じ代だいにオランダから伝つたわった医い療りょう器き具ぐだ。

  The erekiteru is a medical device introduced from the Netherlands in the Edo period.

noun

electricity (archaic)

Archaic original meaning; the word was later replaced by 電気. Now only encountered in historical contexts.

See also: 電気

• エレキテルという言こと葉ばは、かつて「電でん気き」を意い味みした。

  The word erekiteru once meant 'electricity'.