masculusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From mās ("male") +‎ -culus (diminutive ending).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmaːs.kʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmas.ku.lus]

形容詞

māsculus (feminine māscula, neuter māsculum); first/second-declension adjective

1. male, masculine
2. manly, virile
3. Used of the larger and coarser varieties of plants or other natural products
4. (engineering) a male connector

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

名詞

māsculus m (genitive māsculī); second declension

1. a male (of humans or other animals)

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

(Most inherited Romance reflexes derive from a syncopated variant māsclus, attested in the Appendix Probi.)

参照

• “masculus” on page 1190 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• “mâle” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1078: “il maschio e la femmina” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Further reading

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