Caduceusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /kəˈdu.si.əs/, /kəˈdjuː.si.əs/

名詞

caduceus (plural caducei)

1. The official wand carried by a herald in ancient Greece and Rome, specifically the one carried in mythology by Hermes, the messenger of the gods, usually represented with two snakes twined around it.

   Synonym: golden wand

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Caduceus the rod of Mercury, / With which he wonts the Stygian realmes inuade […]

2. A symbol (☤) representing a staff with two snakes wrapped around it, used to indicate merchants and messengers. It is also sometimes incorrectly substituted for the rod of Asclepius as a symbol of medicine.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:caduceus.

参考

• Aesculapian staff
• Star of Life

Further reading

• Caduceus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Caduceus as a symbol of medicine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rod of Asclepius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• caucused

名詞

cādūceus m (genitive cādūceī); second declension

1. alternative form of cādūceum

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生した語

• → English: caduceus
• → German: Caduceus, Kaduzeus
• → Polish: kaduceusz

参照

• “caduceus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “caduceus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “caduceus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin