ephemerisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɪˈfɛməɹɪs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɪˈfɛməɹəs/

名詞

ephemeris (plural ephemerides or ephemerises)

1. (obsolete) A journal or diary.
   • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section I:

     Wee heard the King was solacing at the Caspian Sea, whither now wee are travelling. Till then let us keepe an Ephemerides or day-journey.

2. (astronomy, nautical) A table giving the apparent position of celestial bodies throughout the year; normally given as right ascension and declination.

   Synonym: almanac

   • 1792, William Bligh, chapter 13, in A Voyage to the South Sea:

     […] Mr. Samuel got 150 pounds of bread, with a small quantity of rum and wine, also a quadrant and compass; but he was forbidden on pain of death to touch either map, ephemeris, book of astronomical observations, sextant, timekeeper, or any of my surveys or drawings.

3. Computer software that calculates the apparent position of celestial bodies.

派生語

• ephemeris time

関連する語

• ephemerid
• ephemeride

Further reading

• ephemeris on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ɛˈpʰeː.mɛ.rɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [eˈfɛː.me.ris]

名詞

ephēmeris f (genitive ephēmeridis or ephēmeridos); third declension

1. a day-book, diary, ephemeris
2. a journal, periodical
   • 1866 February 12th, Pope Pius IX, “Papal Brief in favour of ‘La Civiltà Cattolica’” in The Dublin Review, New Series, volume VII (July–October, 1866), № xiii, page 230:

     Qui Religiosi Viri, Nostris desideriis omni observantia et studio quam libentissime obsecudantes, iam inde ab anno 1850 Ephemeridem, cui titulus La Civiltà Cattolica, conscribendam, typisque vulgandam susceperunt.

     Which aforesaid religious, most willingly seconding our wishes with all observance and zeal, undertook from that very time (the year 1850) the writing and publishing a journal called “La Civiltà Cattolica.” ― translation from the same source

語形変化

同意語

• (journal): ācta

関連する語

• ephēmericus
• ephēmerida
• ephēmeron

派生した語

参照

• “ĕphēmĕris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ephemeris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ĕphēmĕris”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 593/1.
• “ephemeris”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ephemeris”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin