Faunusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

faunus (plural fauni)

1. Dated form of faun.

参照

• “faunus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfau̯.nus/, [ˈfäu̯nʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfau̯.nus/, [ˈfäːu̯nus]

固有名詞

faunus m (genitive faunī); second declension

1. (Roman mythology) faun (horned sylvan deity)
   • 1st century B.C., Lucretius, De rura natura:

     Haec loca capripedes satyros nymphasque tenere finitimi fingunt et faunos esse locuntur, quorum noctivago strepitu ludoque iocanti adfirmant volgo taciturna silentia rumpi.

     These spots the neighboring countryside feigns to be the haunts of goat-footed satyrs and nymphs, and tells of fauns there, by whose nighttime din and playful pranks they declare the noiseless silence is broken.

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

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