Cyathusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cyathus (plural cyathuses or cyathi)

1. (historical) An ancient Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 1⅔ Roman ounce of wine and equivalent to about 45 mL although differing slightly over time.
2. A ladle, especially (historical) a small one used for serving wine in ancient Greece and Rome.
3. (historical) Synonym of kyathos (“an ancient ladle and serving beaker”).

同意語

• (unit of measure): Roman cup, cup, cupful (Roman contexts)

等位語

• (unit of measure): lingula (¼ cyathus), acetabulum (1½ cyathi), quartarius (3 cyathi), hemina (6 cyathi), sextarius (12 cyathi), congius (72 cyathi) urna (288 cyathi), amphora (576 cyathi), culeus (11520 cyathi)

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈky.a.tʰus/, [ˈkyät̪ʰʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃi.a.tus/, [ˈt͡ʃiːät̪us]

名詞

cyathus m (genitive cyathī); second declension

1. (historical) cyathus, Roman cup, a Roman unit of liquid measure equivalent to about 45 mL
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.531–532:

     sōle tamen vīnōque calent annōsque precantur,
     quot sūmant cyathōs, ad numerumque bibunt.

     With sun and wine they are warmed, however; and they pray for as many years
     as the cupfuls they take, and count as they drink.
     (The ancient Romans celebrated the festival of Anna Perenna on the Ides of March.)

2. ladle, especially (historical) a small wine ladle in Roman contexts
3. kyathos, a small wine ladle and serving beaker in ancient Greece and Rome

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

等位語

• (wine ladle): poculum
• (unit of measure): lingula (¼ cyathus), acetabulum (1½ cyathi), quartarius (3 cyathi), hemina (6 cyathi), sextarius (12 cyathi), congius (72 cyathi) urna (288 cyathi), amphora (576 cyathi), culeus (11520 cyathi)

派生した語

• English: cyathus

参考

• cheme, mystrum

参照

• “cyathus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cyathus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cyathus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cyathus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “cyathus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cyathus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “cyathus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “cyathus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin