Vulcanusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

参照

• “Vulcan, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

別の表記

• Volcānus

語源

Unknown; possibly borrowed via Etruscan from Doric Greek Ϝέλχανος (Wélkhanos, “Velchanos, a Cretan god of nature and the netherworld”). More on Wikipedia.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [wʊɫˈkaː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [vulˈkaː.nus]

固有名詞

Vulcānus m (genitive Vulcānī); second declension

1. (Roman mythology) Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalwork, considered equivalent to the Greek Hephaestus and various German and Celtic gods.
2. a small volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to Sicily, in Italy

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

“Vulcan” (Roman god of fire):

“Vulcano” (a small volcanic island north of Sicily; named for the Roman belief that it was the chimney of Vulcan):

• Italian: Vulcano
• Sicilian: Vurcanu

“volcano” (named for the island of Vulcano):

• Italian: vulcano (see there for further descendants)
• Sicilian: vurcanu (see there for further descendants)

参照

Further reading

• “Vulcānus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Vulcānus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.