vescorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Derived from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“graze”), cognate with Gothic wisan (“to enjoy oneself, devour”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈweːs.kɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈvɛs.kor]

動詞

vēscor (present infinitive vēscī); third conjugation, deponent, no perfect or supine stems

1. (with accusative or ablative) to eat, feed upon

   Synonyms: adedō, edō, vorō, prandeō, pāscor, cēnō, cōnsūmō, epulor

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.7:

     ne extis [...] vescerentur

     Should not eat of the entrails

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.14:

     Īnstituērunt diem fēstum: nōn quō solō cum servīs dominī vescerentur, sed quō utique.

     They established a holiday: not the only [one] on which masters could eat [together] with [their] slaves, but [one] on which [they] certainly would.
     (See Saturnalia.)

2. (with accusative or ablative) to make use of, enjoy, use

   Synonyms: adhibeō, sūmō, assūmō, ūtor, ūsūrpō

3. (intransitive) to eat

使用する際の注意点

• The verb vēscor and others like it, fruor, fungor, ūtor, potior, and their compounds, regularly govern the ablative case.

  Lacte et ferīnā carne vēscēbantur.

  They fed on milk and game.

Conjugation

派生語

派生した語

• → Albanian: ushqej

参照

Further reading

• “vescor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vescor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vescor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.