speluncaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [speːˈɫʊŋ.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [speˈluŋ.ka]

名詞

spēlunca f (genitive spēluncae); first declension

1. a cave, cavern, chasm
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.60–61:

     Sed pater omnipotēns spēluncīs abdidit ātrīs,
     hoc metuēns, [...].

     But the all-powerful Father [Jupiter] had hidden [the winds] in dark caverns, [because he was] fearing this [destruction], [...].

2. a grotto
3. a den
   • Biblia Sacra, Matthaeus XXI.XIII:

     "Scrīptum est", inquit eīs: "Domus mea domus supplicātiōnis vocābitur: at vōs ex ea fēcistis spēluncam latrōnum"

     "It is written", he said to them: "my house will be called a house of prayer: but you have made a den of thieves from it"

語形変化

First-declension noun.

同意語

• specus

派生した語

参照

• “spelunca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “spelunca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "spelunca", 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)
• “spelunca”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “spelunca”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly