Tenebrioとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [tɛˈnɛ.bri.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [teˈnɛː.bri.o]

名詞

tenebriō m (genitive tenebriōnis); third declension

1. One who shuns the light, trickster, swindler
   • 1st century BCE, Lucius Afranius, Epistula, (as quoted by Nonius):

     huc venit fugiens tenebrione(m) tirrium

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   • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Menippean satires, (fragment as quoted by Nonius):

     saltem infernus tenebr(i)o, κακός δαίμων, atque habeat homines sollicitos, quod eum peius formidant quam fullo ululam.

     at least a devilish trickster, an evil spirit, and let him keep men disturbed, because they fear him more than the fuller fears the screechowl

   • c. 280 CE, Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina I 46:

     Nebulones et tenebriones dicti sunt, qui mendaciis et astutiis suis nebulam quandam et tenebras obiciebant aut quibus ad fugam et furta haec erant accomodata et utilia.

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2. (New Latin, biology) mealworm (Tenebriō mólitor)

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

関連する語

派生した語

• • → Translingual: Tenebrio (learned)

参照

Further reading

• “tenebrio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tenebrio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• tenebrio in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016