cupidusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkʊ.pɪ.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkuː.pi.dus]

形容詞

cupidus (feminine cupida, neuter cupidum, comparative cupidior, superlative cupidissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. eager, desirous, passionate, fond (+ genitive or + in ablative)

   Synonyms: dēsīderōsus, impiger, studiōsus, sēdulus, ācer, libēns, intentus, aspīrāns

   pacis cupidus ― peace lover

2. greedy, covetous
3. wanton, lecherous
4. partial, biased, favoring

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

派生した語

• Old Catalan: cobeu
• Old Occitan: cobe ⇒ coubés
  • ⇒ Provençal: coube, coubi
  • → Old Catalan: cobés
• → French: cupide
• → Italian: cupido
• → Welsh: cybydd

参照

• Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “cupidus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, pages 1552–1553

Further reading

• “cupidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cupidus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a demagogue, agitator: plebis dux, vulgi turbator, civis turbulentus, civis rerum novarum cupidus
    
  • revolutionists: homines seditiosi, turbulenti or novarum rerum cupidi
    
  • to hold revolutionary opinions: novarum rerum cupidum esse