pessumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Proto-Italic *pessus from Proto-Indo-European *ped-tu-s, from *ped- (whence pēs); compare -tum (forming supine).

副詞

pessum (not comparable) (chiefly pre-classical, post-classical)

1. to the bottom, to the lowest part; especially in:

   pessum (ab)īre ― to go to the bottom; to sink; to die

   pessum dare ― to do away with, put an end to; to make someone or something sink to

   • c. 206 BCE – 188 BCE, Plautus, Mercator 5.2.6–7:

     eorum inventu res simitu pessumas pessum dedi,
     iram, inimicitiam, maerorem, lacrumas, exilium, inopiam

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

関連する語

語源 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πεσσός (pessós).

別の表記

• pessus

名詞

pessum n (genitive pessī); second declension

1. a pessary

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生語

• pessārium
• pessulum

Further reading

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