laevusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɫae̯.wʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈlɛː.vus]

形容詞

laevus (feminine laeva, neuter laevum); first/second-declension adjective

1. left; on the left side

   Synonyms: scaevus, sinister

   Antonym: dexter

   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 4:

     et inde tot per impotentia freta
     erum tulisse (laeva sīve dextera
     vocāret aura, sīve utrumque Iuppiter
     simul secundus incidisset in pedem)

     and thence through so many unruly seas
     it carried its master, whether a left or a right breeze
     would call, or a favorable wind (Jupiter) fell
     on each sheet at the same time

2. (figuratively) clumsy, awkward
3. (figuratively) foolish
4. unlucky

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

関連する語

派生した語

• → English: levo-
  • ⇒ English: levulose
• →? Etruscan: 𐌋𐌀𐌉𐌅𐌄 (laive)
• → Italian: levo

参考

• ambi-

参照

Further reading

• “laevus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “laevus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• laevus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.