laocoonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λαοκόων (Laokóōn).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ɫaːˈɔ.ko.oːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [laˈɔː.ko.on]

固有名詞

Lāocoōn m sg (genitive Lāocoontis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) name of a mythical character; Laocoön who was attacked by giant serpents
   • 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, pages 80-81:

     He forthwith mentioned the wonderful charm in his custody, dwelt upon its merits till he grew quite eloquent, and finally desired the youth to follow him to the inner room, where it hung. It was a small dark chamber, crowded with articles for sale; but, whether from accident or design, the curiosities were all of a wild and ghastly kind. In the middle was a cast of the Laocoon, the wretched father and his children writhing in the folds of the terrible serpents: cruel must have been the eye and heart of the sculptor who thus made agony his triumph.

使用する際の注意点

• Sometimes spelled Lāocoön, with a diaeresis.

語形変化

Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -ōn; two different stems), singular only.

派生した語

参照

• “Laocoon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Laocoon”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 886.