Urusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈjʊəɹəs/

名詞

urus (plural uri or uruses)

1. The aurochs.
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book VIII.] Of Scythian beasts, and those that are bred in the North parts.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, pages 199–200:

     Howbeit, that country bringeth forth certain kinds of goodly great wild bœufes: to wit, the Biſontes, mained with a collar, like Lions: and the Vri, a mightie ſtrong beaſt, and a ſwift: which the ignorant people call Buffles, whereas indeed the Buffle is bred in Affrica, and carieth ſome reſemblance of a calfe rather, or a ſtag.

   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     He also brought forth two large drinking cups, made out of the horn of the urus, and hooped with silver.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 123:

     Eduard Hahn has postulated that the motive for capturing and maintaining the urus in the captive state was to have available a supply, for sacrificial purposes, of the animal sacred to the lunar mother goddess worshipped over an immense area of the ancient world.

関連する語

• aurochs (perhaps related)
• ure

語源 2

名詞

urus (plural uruses)

1. Alternative spelling of urs

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈuː.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈuː.rus]

名詞

ūrus m (genitive ūrī); second declension

1. an aurochs

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生した語

• → Ancient Greek: οὖρος (oûros)
• Catalan: ur
• → English: ure, urus
• French: ure
• Italian: uro
• Portuguese: uro
• Spanish: uro

参照

• “urus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “urus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• urus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.