agensとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈa.ɡẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈaː.d͡ʒens]

Participle

agēns (genitive agentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. doing, acting, making
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.1.1:

     Et sī voluerīs attendere, maxima pars vītae ēlābitur male agentibus, magna nihil agentibus, tōtā vītā aliud agentibus.

     And if you wish to attend [to your moral improvement, remember this:] the greatest part of life slips away while [we are] behaving badly, much [of the time] in doing nothing, the whole of life by acting otherwise.
     (Note that Latin texts vary in the order of emphasis: “maxima...magna…tota” or “magna…maxima…tota”.)

2. driving

語形変化

Third-declension participle.

When used purely as an adjective.

派生した語

参照

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