goat-fishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

goat-fish (plural goat-fish or goat-fishes)

1. (mythology) A sea goat (upper half goat, lower half fish).

   Synonym: fish-goat

   • 1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and their Meaning, New York: G.E. Stechert, page 138:

     From this figuring Camões, in Os Lusiadas of 1572, called it the Semi-Capran Fish, as it is now with us the Goat-Fish and the Sea Goat.

   • 1965, Willy Hartner, “The Earliest History of the Constellations in the near East and the Motif of the Lion-Bull Combat”, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, volume 24, number 1/2, page 14, column 1:

     Similarly, the ibex with the round symbol in its horns, though for several thousand years past removed from its original place among the stars and reduced later to the little constellation of the Goat-Fish (Šuh̬ur-máš, Capricorn), subsists as an artistic motif throughout the millennia.

   • 1998, John H. Roger, “Origins of the ancient constellations: I. The Mesopotamian traditions”, in Journal of the British Astronomy Association, volume 108, number 1, page 11, column 1:

     "Ea", the beneficent god of earth and life, who dwelt in the abyssal waters, was shown with two streams running from his hands or shoulders; he became Aquarius, and his symbols also formed the constellations of Capricornus (Ea's goat-fish, first seen on the seal of Ur just before 2000 BC), the Field (our Square of Pegasus), Piscis Austrinus, and perhaps Pisces [...] and Aries (Ea's ram's-head staff).