acutulusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈkuː.tu.lus/, [äˈkuːt̪ʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈku.tu.lus/, [äˈkuːt̪ulus]

形容詞

acūtulus (feminine acūtula, neuter acūtulum, adverb acūtule); first/second-declension adjective

1. Diminutive of acūtus (“sharp, acute, subtle”)

   • 45 BCE, Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.18.7:

     Zenonisque brevīs et acutulas conclusiones in eam partem sermonis quam modo dixi differemus

     • 1896 translation by Francis Brooks

       and the syllogisms of Zeno, with their conciseness and petty ingenuity, will be deferred to that part of the discourse which I have just mentioned

     c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 17.5.3.3:

     rhetoricus quidam sophista utriusque linguae callens, haut sane ignobilis ex istis acutulis et minutis doctoribus, qui τεχνικοί appellantur

使用する際の注意点

The difference in meaning between the diminutive and the base adjective is disputed: Lewis and Short defines it as "somewhat pointed, acute, or subtile", i.e. as "acūtus to a small extent" or "possessing a small amount of the quality described by the word acūtus", but Petersen argues that this reading of the word as a "diminutive of quality" is incorrect, and that the diminutive instead either expresses the smallness of the modified noun^[1], or has a "deteriorative" sense (serving to express a negative shade of emotion such as contempt) relative to the original adjective^[2]

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

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