Rusticusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈruːs.tɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈrus.ti.kus]

形容詞

rūsticus (feminine rūstica, neuter rūsticum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of the country, rural, rustic

   Synonym: agrestis

   Antonym: urbānus

   • 80 BCE, Cicero, Pro Roscio Amerino 15.42:

     'Nescio' inquit 'quae causa odi fuerit; fuisse odium intellego qui antea, cum duos filios haberet, illum alterum qui mortuus est secum omni tempore volebat esse, hunc in praedia rustica relegarat.'

     'I know not', says he, 'what cause for displeasure there was; but I know that displeasure existed; because formerly, when he had two sons, he chose that other one, who is dead, to be at all times with himself, but sent this other one to his country farms.'

   • c. 35 BCE, Horace, Satires (book 2) 6:

     Olim rusticus urbanum murem mus paupere fertur accepisse cavo...

     It is told that once upon a time a country mouse in his poor burrow received a city mouse...

2. (figuratively) unrefined, boorish, coarse
   • 55 BCE, Cicero, De Oratore 3.11.42:

     […] rustica vox et agrestis quosdam delectat […]

     […] a boorish and rude voice delights certain men […]

   • 62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 16.21:

     […] rusticus Romanus factus es.

     […] you were made a Roman farmer.

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

派生語

派生した語

名詞

rūsticus m (genitive rūsticī); second declension

1. farmer, peasant, rustic
2. (figuratively) a boor

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

参照

• “rusticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rusticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “rusticus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • tillage; cultivation: opus rusticum
    
  • (ambiguous) country life (the life of resident farmers, etc.: vita rustica
    
• “rusticus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “rusticus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray