cavannusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cavannus m (genitive cavannī); second declension (Late Latin, Gaul, dialectal)

1. tawny owl

   Synonyms: ulula, uluccus

   • mid-5th c., Eucherius of Lyon, Instructionum Libri Duo ad Salonium filium 2.9:

     Sunt qui ululas putent aves esse nocturnas, ab ululatu vocis quem efferunt, quas vulgo cavannos dicunt.

     There are those who think that [tawny] owls, popularly called cavanni, are nocturnal birds named from the cry that they produce.

   • 9th c., Unknown, Commenta Bernensia 8.55:

     Ululae: aves de ululatu dictae, cuius deminutivum est uluccus, sicut Itali dicunt; quam avem Galli cavannum nuncupant.

     Ululae: birds named from their cry, the diminutive of which [word] is uluccus, as the Italians say; this bird the Gauls name cavannus.

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生した語

• Old French: chavan
  • Middle French: chavan
  • Angevin: chahon, chohon, chéhon, choin
  • Berrichon: chavon
  • Norman: cahouain (Jèrriais)
  • Picard: cavan
  • Poitevin: chaon
  • Saintongeais: chavan
• Old Occitan: chavan, chauana
  • Occitan: chavant, chavancou
• Zarphatic Old French: javan
  • French: chat-huant
• Asturian: cárabu

参照

• “cavannus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cavannus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.