Pleiasとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• Plias

語源

From Ancient Greek Πλειάδες (Pleiádes).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpleː.i.as/, [ˈpɫ̪eːiäs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈple.i.as/, [ˈplɛːiäs]
• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpleː.i̯as/, [ˈpɫ̪eːi̯äs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈple.jas/, [ˈplɛːjäs]

固有名詞

Plēias f (genitive Plēiadis); third declension

1. a Pleiad, one of the Seven Sisters
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.668:

     Nec superum rector mala tanta Phoronidos ultra ferre potest natumque vocat, quem lucida partu Pleias enixa est letoque det imperat Argum.

     Now the king of the gods can no longer stand Phoronis’s great sufferings, and he calls his son, born of the shining Pleiad, and orders him to kill Argus.

2. (in the plural) the Pleiades (constellation)
3. (transferred sense, poetic) a storm, rain
   • c. 90 CE, Valerius Flaccius, Argonautica 2.405:

     Modo saeva quierunt aequora. Sic portus fugeret ratis, aspera si te Plias in adversae tenuisset litore Thraces.

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

参照

• “Pleias”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Pleias”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Pleias in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Pleias”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers