Sepiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin sēpia (“cuttlefish”), from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía). Cognate with Italian seppia, Portuguese siba, and Spanish sepia.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsiːpiə/
• 韻: -iːpiə

名詞

sepia (countable and uncountable, plural sepias)

1. (uncountable) A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish. [from 1820s]
   • 1930, A[loys] Merz, M[orris] Rea Paul, “Sepia”, in “Notes on Color Names”, in A Dictionary of Color, New York City: McGraw-Hill, page 179:

     Sepia had some use in ancient times as a writing ink, and in modern times has has occasionally been used as a pigment, but it never attained any popularity, as it is extremely fugitive.

2. (uncountable) A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour.

   sepia:  

3. (by extension, countable) A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph.
4. (archaic, countable) A cuttlefish. [from 16th c.]

関連する語

参考

• Appendix:Colors

形容詞

sepia (comparative more sepia, superlative most sepia)

1. Of a dark reddish-brown colour.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Miss Thyrza’s Chair”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 41:

     Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.

   • 1998 November 22, Lance Parkin, “Infinity and Beyond” (chapter 12), in The Infinity Doctors, BBC Books, →ISBN, page 209:

     Only now did he realise how few colours there had been at the end of the universe. The world had been sepia, drained of colour and light.

アナグラム

• Aspie, aspie, paise

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈseː.pi.a/, [ˈs̠eːpiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈse.pi.a/, [ˈsɛːpiä]

名詞

sēpia f (genitive sēpiae); first declension

1. a cuttlefish
2. the secretion of a cuttlefish used as ink

語形変化

First-declension noun.

同意語

• (cuttlefish): lōlīgō

派生した語

参照

• “sepia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sepia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "sepia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sepia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sepia”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “sepia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sēpia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 11: S–Si, page 478
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “sēpia”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 589