ensiferとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin ēnsifer (“sword-bearing”).

名詞

ensifer (uncountable)

1. (microbiology) A member of the genus Ensifer, of the bacteria family Rhizobiaceae.

派生語

アナグラム

• Feiners, enfires, ferines, refines, sin-free, fineers

語源

From ēnsis (“sword”) +‎ -fer (“-carrying”). Compare Ancient Greek ξιφήρης (xiphḗrēs).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈen.si.fer/, [ˈẽːs̠ɪfɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈen.si.fer/, [ˈɛnsifer]

形容詞

ēnsifer (feminine ēnsifera, neuter ēnsiferum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. with a sword, wearing a sword, sword-bearing (especially as an epithet of Orion)
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.388:

     ēnsifer Ōrīōn aequore mersus erit

     sword-bearing Orion will be plunged into the sea
     (The apparent setting of Orion (constellation) beneath an ocean horizon.)

   • 1835. M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Carolus Hermannus Weise) book 1, line 663 (3.61):

     Ēnsiferī nimium fulget lātus Orionis?

     Does the sword-bearing side of Orion gleam too much?

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

名詞

ēnsifer m (genitive ēnsiferī); second declension

1. sword-bearer

語形変化

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

参照

• “ensĭfer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ENSIFERI 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)
• (-ger) ensĭfĕr (-ger) in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 590/3.
• M. Annaeus Lucanus (1835) Pharsalia (poem).[1]
• “ensifer” on page 609/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “ensifer”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 375/1
• Glossary of Latin Words, Bible History Online. (File retrieved 10-19-07)[2]