formaceusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From fōrma (“shape, mould”) +‎ -āceus (“relational adjective suffix”). Said to be current in Africa and Spain, and is continued in Spanish. Isidore cites the substantivised fōrmācium, with fōrmātum as a synonym. Compare Spanish horma (“dry stone wall”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [foːrˈmaː.ke.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [forˈmaː.t͡ʃe.us]

形容詞

fōrmāceus (feminine fōrmācea, neuter fōrmāceum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (hapax legomenon) made using a form or mould, moulded
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.169:

     […] nōn in Āfricā Hispāniāque ē terrā parietēs, quōs appellant fōrmāceōs, quoniam in fōrmā circumdatīs duābus utrimque tabulīs inferciuntur vērius quam īnstruuntur, aevīs dūrant […] ?

     […] don't they last for ages, the earthen walls in Africa and Spain that they call moulded because they're stuffed in a mould, with two boards on either side, rather than constructed […] ?

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

関連する語

派生した語

• Spanish: hormazo, hormaza

参照

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