Clarissaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more. Popularized in English by Samuel Richardson's 1748 novel Clarissa. Doublet of Clarisse.

発音

• IPA: /kləˈɹɪsə/
• 韻: -ɪsə

固有名詞

Clarissa

1. A female given name from Latin or Italian.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa:

     My wife's maiden name—Unmarried name, I should rather say […] was Harlowe—Clarissa Harlowe—you heard me call her my Clarissa—
     I did—but I thought it to be a feigned or a love-name, said Miss Rawlins. […]
     No—it was her real name, I said.

関連する語

• Clarice, Clarisse

名詞

Clarissa (plural Clarissas)

1. (Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
   • 1991, Thomas Head, “Clare of Assisi”, in An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers:

     Following Francis' example, Clare founded an order of religious women known as the Poor Ladies of Assisi (like Francis' Poor Men), and later as the Clarissas or Poor Clares in her honor.

   • 1992, Caroline A. Bruzelius, “Hearing Is Believing: Clarissan Architecture, ca. 1213–1340”, in Gesta, volume 31, number 2, page 85:

     In the protomonastero of Santa Chiara in Assisi, erected from the outset for the Clarissas, however, equally frequent changes and modifications in the location of the nuns' choir suggest that there were still uncertainties as to the best place for it.

   • 1995, Caroline A. Bruzelius, “Queen Sancia of Mallorca and the Convent Church of Sta. Chiara in Naples”, in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, volume 40, page 75:

     The rule of Urban IV also clarified the nomenclature of the Clarissas, with the pope designating the group as the Order of St. Claire rather than Poor Ladies, or Poor Recluses, of San Damiano.

別の表記

• clarissa

派生語

• Clarissan, Clarissian

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /klaˈris.sa/, [kɫ̪äˈrɪs̠ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /klaˈris.sa/, [kläˈrisːä]

名詞

Clarissa f

1. (Medieval Latin) Alternative letter-case form of clarissa: a member of the Order of Saint Clare.

固有名詞

Clarissa f

1. (Medieval Latin) a female given name

派生した語

• → English: Clarissa
• French: Clarisse
  • English: Clarisse, Clarice
• Italian: Clarissa