pronubaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

prōnuba f (genitive prōnubae); first declension

1. maid of honor, matron of honor, one who conducts the bride to the bridal chamber
2. Pronuba Iuno: Juno as Queen of Marriage, Goddess of Marriage
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.166–167:

     [...] Prīma et Tellūs et prōnuba Iūnō / dant signum [...].

     And now Primal Tellus and Juno, Queen of Marriage, give the signal.
     (See: Tellus; Juno; serving here as the “auspices nuptiarum” who read omens prior to a Roman wedding.)

語形変化

First-declension noun.

関連する語

• prōnubus
• prōnubans

派生した語

• English: pronubial
• Italian: pronuba

形容詞

prōnuba

1. inflection of prōnubus:
   1. nominative/ablative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative neuter plural

参照

• “pronuba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pronuba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “pronuba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pronuba”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “pronuba”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin