offeroとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

ob- (“towards”) +‎ ferō (“bear, carry”)

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɔf.fɛ.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɔf.fe.ro]

動詞

offerō (present infinitive offerre, perfect active obtulī, supine oblātum); third conjugation, suppletive

1. to bring before or bring to, present, offer, bestow, show, place before, exhibit, expose

   Synonyms: prōferō, sufferō, prōpōnō, afferō, porrigō, polliceor, obiciō, praebeō, expōnō, summittō, dōnō, condōnō, largior, moveō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.589–592:

     “Cum mihi sē nōn ante oculīs tam clāra videndam
     obtulit et pūrā per noctem in lūce refulsit:
     alma parēns, cōnfessa deam, quālīsque vidērī
     caelicolīs et quanta solet [...].”

     “When [suddenly] she presented herself to me – far brighter than [I had] ever seen [her] before – worthy to be viewed, and with clarity, shining through the darkness in [all her] splendor: [my] gracious mother, revealed [as a] goddess, both in form and stature as she was wont to appear to the heaven-dwelling gods.”
     (Venus reveals her divine appearance to Aeneas.)

2. to cause, occasion, inflict

   Synonyms: indō, pariō, ēdō, importō, addūcō, īnferō, afferō, efficiō, iniciō

3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) to offer to God, consecrate, dedicate
4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) to offer up, sacrifice

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参照

• “offero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “offero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “offero”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to sacrifice oneself for one's country: se morti offerre pro salute patriae
    
  • a favourable[1] opportunity presents itself: occasio datur, offertur
    
  • to expose oneself to peril: periculis se offerre
    
  • to risk one's life: salutem, vitam suam in discrimen offerre (not exponere)