pollinctorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

pollinctor (plural pollinctors)

1. undertaker

参照

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

語源

From pollingō (“to wash a corpse in preparation for a funeral”) +‎ -tor.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [pɔlˈliːŋk.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [polˈliŋk.tor]

名詞

pollīnctor m (genitive pollīnctōris); third declension

1. an undertaker: a person who prepares corpses for funerals

   Synonyms: vespillō, libitīnārius

   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 10.97.3:

     Dum levis arsura struitur Libitina papyro,
     Dum murram et casias flebilis uxor emit,
     Iam scrobe, iam lecto, iam pollinctore parato
     Heredem scripsit me Numa: convaluit.

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   • 5th-6th c. CE, Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, 3:

     Pollinctores dicti sunt qui funera morientia accurant; unde et Plautus in Menecmi comoedia ait: 'Sicut pollinctor dixit qui eum pollinxerat'. Pollinctores dicti sunt quasi pollutorum unctores, id est cadauerum curatores, unde et Apuleius in Ermagora ait: 'Pollincto eius funere domuitionem paramus'.

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   • c. 430 CE – c. 489 CE, Sidonius Apollinaris, Letters 3.13:

     Enimvero ille sordidior est atque deformior cadavere rogali, quod facibus admotis semicombustum moxque sidente strue torrium devolutum reddere pyrae iam fastidiosus pollinctor exhorret.

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   • 533 CE, Justinian, Digest 14.3.5
2. a burier
   • Vulgata—Ezechiel 39.15:

     Et circuibunt peragrantes terram : cumque viderint os hominis, statuent juxta illud titulum, donec sepeliant illud pollinctores in valle multitudinis

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語形変化

Third-declension noun.

Further reading

• “pollinctor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pollinctor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pollinctor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pollinctor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin