Hippomanesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

hippomanes (uncountable)

1. An ancient love philter obtained from a mare or foal in heat.
   • 1908, Theodore Chickering Williams, transl., “On His Lady's Avarice”, in The Elegies of Tibullus‎, translation of original by Tibullus:

     Let Circe and Medea bring the lees / Of some foul cup! Let Thessaly prepare / Its direst poison! Bring hippomanes, / Fierce philtre from the frantic, brooding mare!

2. A membrane on the forehead of a foal, used in love potions.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 120:

     Hippomanes was used in ancient Roman potions as an aphrodisiac.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [hɪpˈpɔ.ma.nɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ipˈpɔː.ma.nes]

名詞

hippomanes n (genitive hippomanis); third declension

1. an aphrodisiac obtained from the discharge of a mare in heat
2. a membrane on the forehead of a foal, used in love-potions

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

参照

• “hippomanes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hippomanes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers