Canaaniteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈkeɪnənaɪt/

固有名詞

Canaanite

1. A subfamily of the Semitic languages, which were spoken by the ancient peoples of the Canaan region, including Canaanites, Israelites and Phoenicians.
   • 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 393:

     An affricated realization of *-z, as well as of voiceless *-s and emphatic *-ṣ-, is in any case reconstructed for Proto-Semitic, Northwest Semitic, and Canaanite, to which Phoenician belongs.

派生語

名詞

Canaanite (plural Canaanites)

1. A member of the ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before its conquest by Israelites.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 54:

     Among the ancient Canaanites it was considered a divine honor to perform the sexual act.

   • 2022 November 9, Ian Sample, “Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb”, in The Guardian‎:

     It’s a simple sentence that captures the hopes and fears of modern-day parents as much as the bronze age Canaanite who owned the doubled-edged ivory comb on which the words appear.

2. (by extension) A zealot or fanatic.
3. A member of the Canaanism movement.

形容詞

Canaanite (comparative more Canaanite, superlative most Canaanite)

1. Of or pertaining to the people or language of Canaan.
   • 2022 November 9, Ian Sample, “Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb”, in The Guardian‎:

     Unearthed in Lachish, a Canaanite city state in the second millennium BCE and the second most important city in the kingdom of Judah, the comb suggests that humans have endured lice for thousands of years and that even the wealthiest were not spared the grim infestations.

2. Of or pertaining to this sect or its followers; Canaanitic.
3. (by extension) zealous or fanatical.

同意語

参照

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “Canaanite”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.