Mellitusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [mɛlˈliː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [melˈliː.t̪us]

形容詞

mellītus (feminine mellīta, neuter mellītum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to honey
   • c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.11:

     Neque non de secundis quoque mensis, cuiusmodi esse eas oporteat, praecipit. His enim verbis utitur: "Bellaria" inquit "ea maxime sunt mellita, quae mellita non sunt; πέμμασιν enim cum πέψει societas infida".

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   Synonyms: melinus, mellārius, melleus, mellōsus

2. sweetened with honey, honey-sweet, honeyed

   Synonyms: melleus, melliculus, mellītulus

   • 20 BCE – 14 BCE, Horace, Epistles IX.9–11:

     Quid quaeris? Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
     Quae vos ad caelum fertis rumore secundo,
     Utque sacerdotis fugitivus liba recuso,
     Pane egeo iam mellitis potiore placentis.

     What do you want from me? I live, I am my own master, I left behind the self same things you by common approval so eagerly covet, like the fugitive I have no right to the priest's blessed cake, but bread will quench my hunger over any honeyed delicacy.

3. (figuratively) as sweet as honey; honey-sweet, darling, lovely

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• Galician: Melide (place name)
• Italian: mellito
• Spanish: remilgo

名詞

mellītus m (genitive mellītī); second declension

1. (figuratively, term of endearment) sweet, darling, honey

   Synonyms: mel, amor

   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 3.6–7:

     Nam mellitus erat suamque norat
     Ipsam tam bene quam puella matrem; […]

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語形変化

Second-declension noun.

参照

• “mellitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mellitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mellitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid from Kevin Cawley at the University of Notre Dame Archives.