AUREUSとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin aureus (“golden; gold coin equivalent to 25 denarii”), noun use of adjective, from aurum (“gold”). Doublet of eyrir, öre, øre, and oyra.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɔːɹɪəs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈoɹiəs/
• 韻: -ɔːɹɪəs

名詞

aureus (plural aurei or aureuses or (nonstandard) aureii)

1. (historical) A gold coin, minted in the Roman Empire from approximately 100 B.C.E. to 309 C.E., equal to 25 denarii.

アナグラム

• ureaus, uraeus, uræus

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈau̯.re.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈaːu̯.re.us]

形容詞

aureus (feminine aurea, neuter aureum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Made of gold, golden; gilded
2. Of the color of gold, gold-colored; shining or glittering like gold
3. (figuratively) of physical and mental greatness or attraction: golden, beautiful, splendid, magnificent, excellent
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.27–28:

     Nec mora, cōnsēdit mediō sublīmis Olympō
     aureā purpureō cōnspicienda sinū.

     [With] no delay, she took her seat on high in the midst of Olympus:
     magnificent, [and so] conspicuous in her purple garment.
     (Refers to the goddess Maiestas, Majestas, or Majesty.)

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

同意語

• (made of gold): aureolus
• (gilded): aureolus, bracteātus
• (of the color of gold): aurātilis, auricolor, aurōsus, aurulentus, chrȳseus
• (splendid, excellent): aureolus

名詞

aureus m (genitive aureī); second declension

1. (numismatics) gold coin equivalent to 25 denarii, aureus (up to the 4th century AD)

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

同意語

• solidus

派生語

• aureātus
• Aurēlius
• aureolus

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参照

• “aureus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aureus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "aureus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “aureus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “aureus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aureus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “aureus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin