Papaverとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the genus name, from Latin papāver. Doublet of poppy.

発音

• IPA: /pəˈpeɪvə(ɹ)/

名詞

papaver (plural papavers)

1. Any plant of the genus Papaver, poppies.

派生語

• papaverous

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [paˈpaː.wɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [paˈpaː.ver]

名詞

papāver n or m (genitive papāveris); third declension

1. poppy

   Synonym: rhoeas

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.484–486:

     “[...] “Hesperidum templī cūstōs, epulāsque dracōnī
     quae dabat, et sacrōs servābat in arbore rāmōs,
     spargēns ūmida mella sopōriferumque papāver.”

     “[The priestess was once a] guardian of the Hesperides’ temple [garden], and was keeping safe the sacred branches on the tree [that grew golden apples]: she used to give food to a dragon, sprinkling dewy honey and the sleep-inducing poppy.”
     (In other words, drugging its sweet food made the guard-dragon docile. See: hyperbaton.)

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.54:

     Summa papaverum capita dicitur baculo decussisse.

     It is said that he struck off the heads of the tallest poppies with a stick.

2. seed
   • (Can we date this quote?), Tertullian, de Praescriptione Haereticorum, 35

     De papavere ficus gratissimae et suavissimae ventosa et vana caprificus exsurgit

     From the seed of the most delicious and grateful fig branches out the useless and deceptive wild fig.

使用する際の注意点

• Masculine in Old Latin.

語形変化

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem or non-neuter).

派生語

派生した語

参照

• “papaver”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “papaver”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “papaver”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.