Abaddonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the 中期英語 Abadon, Abbadon, Labadon, Laabadon, from the Late Latin Abaddōn, from the Ancient Greek Ἀβαδδών (Abaddṓn), from the Biblical Hebrew אבדון (ʾăḇaddōn, literally “destruction, abyss”), 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: /abˈad.doːn/, [äbˈäd̪ːoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /abˈad.don/, [äbˈäd̪ːon]

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