Pegasusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpeː.ɡa.sus/, [ˈpeːɡäs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpe.ɡa.sus/, [ˈpɛːɡäs̬us]

名詞

pēgasus m (genitive pēgasī); second declension

1. pegasus (a winged horse or a bird with a horse's head, suspected to live in Africa)
   • c. 45 CE, Pomponius Mela, De situ orbis libri III 3:

     Sunt mirae aves cornutae tragopanes et equinis auribus pegasi.

     [In Africa] there are wonderful birds: horned tragopans and pegasi with horse's ears.

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.72:

     Aethiopia generat […] pinnatos equos et cornibus armatos, quos pegasos vocant.

     • 1855 translation by John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley

       Æthiopia produces […] horses with wings, and armed with horns, which are called pegasi.

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.26:

     Pegasos equino capite volucres et grypas aurita aduncitate rostri fabulosos reor, illos in Scythia, hos in Aethiopia.

     • 1855 translation by John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley

       I look upon the birds as fabulous which are called "pegasi," and are said to have a horse's head; as also the griffons, with long ears and a hooked beak. The former are said to be natives of Scythia, the latter of Æthiopia.

   • c. 250 CE, Solinus, De mirabilibus mundi :

     Illius caeli ales est pegasus, sed haec ales equinum nihil praeter aures habet.

     In that climate lives the bird pegasus, but this winged creature has nothing equine except ears.

語形変化

Second-declension noun.