phallusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• phallos

語源

From Latin phallus (“membrum virile, phallus, or a figure thereof”) from Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós).

発音

• IPA: /ˈfæləs/
• 韻: -æləs

名詞

phallus (plural phalli or phalluses)

1. A penis, especially when erect.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 159:

     The phallus had power to subdue the attacks of demons and the Evil Eye[.]

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 129:

     If the priests of Diana of Ephesus castrated themselves and offered their genitals on the altar, it was because the phallus was the symbol of the dying body.

2. A representation of an erect penis, especially symbolising fertility or potency.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 86:

     The initiated member gave a gift of a coin for the goddess, for which he received in turn a phallus and some salt.

3. (psychoanalysis) The signifier of the desire of the Other, and the signifier of jouissance.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:penis

等位語

• yoni

派生語

関連する語

• ithyphallic
• lingam

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈpʰal.lʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈfal.lus]

名詞

phallus m (genitive phallī); second declension

1. (mythology, religion) an iconic phallic figure of the male member borne in cult processions at a Dionysian orgy or festival of Bacchus as a symbol of the generative power of nature
2. (anatomy) phallus, membrum virile, penis
3. (figurative, art) phallus; an artistic image of the membrum virile or other figurative representation of the erect penis as an icon representing male sexuality, potency, fertility

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

関連する語

• ithyphallicus
• phallicus
• Triphallus

派生した語

Further reading

• “phallus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “phallus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1171.
• phallus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 1680