Babylonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Partially inherited from 古期英語 Babilōn/Babȳlōn, partially from Latin Babylōn, from Ancient Greek Βαβυλών (Babulṓn), from Akkadian 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 (Bābilim, literally “Gate of God”); the name of the ancient Chaldean capital and Biblical city of the Apocalypse. Doublet of Babel.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbæb.ɪ.lɒn/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈbæb.ɪ.lɑn/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈbæb.ɪ.lɔn/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈbɛb.ə.lɒn/, [ˈbɛb.ə.lɔ̟n]
• 韻: -æbɪlɒn

固有名詞

Babylon

1. (historical) An ancient city, the ancient capital of Babylonia in modern Iraq, built on the banks of the Euphrates.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 18:10:

     Standing afarre off for the feare of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great citie Babylon, that mighty citie: for in one houre is thy iudgement come.

2. A governate in Iraq.
3. Any city of great wealth, luxury and vice.
   • 1921, Ben Travers, A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     Mother […] considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.

4. (Rastafari) Western civilization, seen as corrupt and materialistic, and contrasted with Zion.
5. (Jamaica, MLE) The police.
   • 2017 September 24, Emma Jones, “Crime, sexism and a near death experience - former police officer lifts the lid on the hidden secrets of the force”, in Daily Mirror‎:

     When I was the first officer on the scene at a nightclub brawl, I was picked up by the throat and strangled by a huge Rastafarian who was trying to kill me. I was losing consciousness when Marlon told him to let me go.
     I remember him saying, ‘She’s alright for Babylon. Put her down.’ He dropped me and I ran to the station with massive bruises around my neck.

6. An unincorporated community in Fulton County, Illinois, United States.
7. A town and village therein, in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States.

同意語

• (police): See Thesaurus:police

派生語

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発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈba.by.ɫoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈbaː.bi.lon]

固有名詞

Babylōn f (genitive Babylōnis); third declension

1. (historical) Babylon (an ancient city, the ancient capital of Babylonia in modern Iraq, built on the banks of the Euphrates)

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

Also Greek forms Babylōna (accusative) and Babylōnos (genitive).

関連する語

参照

• “Babylon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Babylon”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Babylon”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “Babylon”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Babylon”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly