pupusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From a reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, little”) (whence also puer). De Vaan additionally supports Ernout and Meillet's hypothesis of pūpa being the original form, and pūpus being a derivative.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpuː.pus/, [ˈpuːpʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpu.pus/, [ˈpuːpus]

名詞

pūpus m (genitive pūpī); second declension

1. a boy, a child
2. a puppet
3. the pupil of the eye (post-class. for pūpula and pūpilla)

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

同意語

• (boy): puer

派生語

• pūpa
• pūpillus
• pūpulus

派生した語

• Italian: pupo
• Sicilian: pupu

参照

Further reading

• “pupus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pupus 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)
• pupus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.