fascinumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈfæsɪnəm/

名詞

fascinum (plural fascina)

1. (historical, occult) An ivory phallus used in certain ancient erotic rites.
   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:

     Here are some brides of ten compelled to seat themselves on the fascinum, the virile ivory in the temples of classical scholarship.

   • 1988, Leonard R. N. Ashley, The Amazing World of Superstition, Prophecy, Luck, Magic & Witchcraft, Random House Value Publishing, →ISBN, page 107, →ISBN:

     Today people use a four-leaf clover, the pompom from a European sailor’s hat, the fascinum (winged phallus, some of which were found in the ruins of Pompeii and seemed to have done little good there), and so on.

語源

Unknown; compare Ancient Greek βάσκανος (báskanos, “sorcerer, slanderer”, adjective and noun), possibly from the same European substrate language. Not known to have any relation to fascis.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈfas.kɪ.nũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈfaʃ.ʃi.num]

名詞

fascinum n (genitive fascinī); second declension

1. (originally) a charm, spell, witchcraft
2. (by extension) a phallus-shaped amulet worn around the neck as a preventive against witchcraft
   1. a penis, phallus, especially that of a human
   2. an artificial phallus, dildo
      • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 138:

        Prōfert Oenothea scorteum fascinum, quod ut oleō et minūtō pipere atque ū̆rtīcae trītō circumdedit sēmine […]

        Then Oenothea takes out a leather dildo and, having covered it in oil, pepper and ground nettle seeds […]

   3. a kind of seashell

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生語

• fascinō
• fascinōsus
• praefiscini

関連する語

• fascinātiō
• fascinātor
• fascinātōrius

派生した語

• → English: fascinum
• Italian: fascino
• ⇒ Portuguese: fascínio

参照

• “fascinum” on page 743 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

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