Abaddonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 Abadon, Abbadon, Labadon, Laabadon, from Late Latin Abaddōn, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓βᾰδδών (Ăbăddṓn), from Biblical Hebrew אֲבַדּוֹן (ʔăḇaddōn, “destruction; ruin”), from אבד (ʾāḇaḏ, “to be lost, to perish”).

発音

• (General American) IPA: /əˈbæ.dn̩/
• ハイフネーション: A‧bad‧don
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /æbədɒːn/

固有名詞

Abaddon

1. The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; Apollyon;[First attested from 1350 to 1470]
2. (poetic) Hell; the bottomless pit; a place of destruction. [Late 17 century.]
   • 1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 4:

     In all her gates, Abaddon rues Thy bold attempt.

派生語

• abaddon

参照

Further reading

• Abaddon in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [aˈbad.doːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [aˈbad.don]

固有名詞

Abaddōn m (indeclinable)

1. (Late Latin) the name of the angel of Tartarus
   • ante AD 405, anonymous revisor(s) of the Vetus Latina, Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis, Apocalypsis 9:11:

     et habebant super se regem angelum abyssi cui nomen hebraice Abaddon graece autem Apollyon et latine habet nomen Exterminans

     And they had over them a king, the angel of the bottomless pit; whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon; in Latin Exterminans. ― Douay–Rheims translation

同意語

• Apollȳōn, Extermināns

派生した語

• → German: Abaddon
• → Middle English: Abadon, Abbadon, Labadon, Laabadon
  • English: Abaddon
• → Spanish: Abadón

Further reading

• “Abaddon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Abaddon, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011