Erebusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Erebos

語源

From Latin Erebus. Doublet of rajas.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɛɹəbəs/

固有名詞

Erebus

1. (Greek mythology) One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of darkness and shadow, brother-husband of Nyx and son of Chaos.
2. (Greek mythology) The dark and gloomy cavern between the earth and Hades; the underworld.
   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i:

     Nay, were he Deul, as he is no man,
     Yet in reuenge of faire Zenocrate,
     UUhome he detayneth in deſpight of vs,
     This arme ſhould ſend him downe to Erebus,
     To ſhroud his ſhame in darkneſſe of the night.

3. Ellipsis of Mount Erebus, a volcano in Antarctica, named after HMS Erebus.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɛ.rɛ.bʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɛː.re.bus]

固有名詞

Erebus m sg (genitive Erebī); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) Erebus, whose equivalent in Roman mythology is Scotus.

語形変化

Second-declension noun, singular only.

派生した語

• English: Erebus

参照

• “Erebus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Erebus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Erebus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.