metusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmɛ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmɛː.t̪us]

名詞

metus m (genitive metūs); fourth declension

1. fear, dread, anxiety, apprehension

   Synonyms: terror m, timor m, pavor m

   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.10:

     Magnō mē metū līberābis, dum modo inter mē atque tē mūrus intersit.

     You will free me from a great fear, provided only that a wall lies between you and me.
     (Magnō … metū: ablative of separation.)

   • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.43–44:

     carminibus metus omnis obest; perditus ēnsem
     haesūrum iugulō iam putō iamque meō.

     Every fear is harmful to [writing] verses; I have already been destroyed, and now I suspect a sword will be stuck in my throat.
     (Even though the poet had been sentenced to live in exile he still feared for his life.)

2. awe, reverence

語形変化

Fourth-declension noun.

派生語

• metuō
• in metū sum (I am in fear)
• meticulōsus
• metum concipiō (I become afraid)
• metum habeō (I am afraid, I entertain fear)

派生した語

参照

• “metus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “metus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “metus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be comprised under the term 'fear.: sub metum subiectum esse
    
  • a man is paralysed with fear: metus aliquem exanimat (Mil. 24. 65)
    
  • to grow pale with fear: exalbescere metu
    
  • to be completely prostrated by fear: metu fractum et debilitatum, perculsum esse
    
  • to recover from one's fright: a metu respirare (Cluent. 70. 200)
    
  • to recover from one's fright: ex metu se recreare, se colligere
    
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “mĕtus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 6/2: Mercatio–Mneme, page 62
• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1985), “miedo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎ (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 66