decusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈde.kus/, [ˈd̪ɛkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈde.kus/, [ˈd̪ɛːkus]

名詞

decus n (genitive decoris); third declension

1. honor, distinction, glory
   • c. 100-110, Tacitus, Histories: Book 4‎:

     Obsessos hinc fides, inde egestas inter decus ac flagitium distrahebant.

     The ties of loyalty on the one hand, and the necessities of famine on the other, kept the besieged wavering between the alternatives of glory and infamy.

2. pride, dignity
3. grace, splendor, ornament, beauty

   Synonyms: faciēs, pulchritūdō, decor

   Antonyms: dēdecus, dehonestāmentum

4. (in the plural) deeds of honor, honorable achievements

   Synonyms: ausus, ausum, fortia, gestum

語形変化

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

派生語

• decorō
• dēdecus

関連する語

• decet
• decor
• decōrus

参照

Further reading

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