cunaeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkuː.nae̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkuː.ne]

名詞

cūnae f pl (genitive cūnārum); first declension (usually plural)

1. cradle
   • 8, Ovid, Fasti, book 6, line 167:

     Post illud nec aves cunas violasse feruntur,/ Et rediit puero, qui fuit ante, color.

     After that, it is said, the birds did not violate the cradle, and to the boy returned his former color.

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2. (metonymic) nest of young birds
   • after 8, Ovid, Tristia, book 3, elegy 12, line 10:

     Utque malae crimen matris deponat hirundo,/ Sub trabibus cunas, parvaque tecta facit.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (metonymic) birth or early childhood, infancy; compare cūnābulum
   • 8, Ovid, Metamorphoses, book 3, line 313:

     Furtim illum primis Ino matertera cunis/ Educat. inde datum Nymphae Nyseïdes antris/ Occuluere suis, lactisque alimenta dedere.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 8, Ovid, Metamorphoses, book 9, line 67:

     Cunarum labor est angues superare mearum,/ Dixit: et, ut vincas alios, Acheloë, dracones,/ Pars quota Lernaeae serpens eris unus Echidnae?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

使用する際の注意点

Although the singular forms (see cūna) do exist in Classical Latin, they were rarely used. The plural was normally used for a singular object.

語形変化

First-declension noun, plural only.

派生語

• ā lacte cūnīsque
• cūnābula
• incūnābula
• Cūnīna

派生した語

Through the singular cūna:

参照

• “cunae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cunae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cunae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cunae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cunae”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin