Ecceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: (traditional anglicized) /ˈɛksi/, (Latinist) /ˈɛkeɪ/, (ecclesiastical) /ˈɛtʃeɪ/

間投詞

ecce

1. an interjection used to draw attention to something or someone; behold!
   • 1819 November 24, “Baron Merian to Samuel Butler”, in Complete Works of Samuel Butler, Delphi Classics, published 2015:

     DEAR SIR, — Ecce my notes on the sermon.

   • 2013, T. Bonfiglio, Why is English Literature?:, →ISBN, page 58:

     Ecce the rise of literature in the modern vernaculars, even the mother tongue

同意語

• See Thesaurus:lo

参考

• ecce homo

アナグラム

• ECEC

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɛk.kɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɛt.t͡ʃe]

間投詞

ecce

1. see!, look!, behold!, points out something with emphasis

   Quem quaerō, optimē ecce obviam mihi est.

   Behold! There comes he I was wishing for.

   Ecce hominem miserum.

   Behold, a sad man.

   Ecce autem videō rūre redeuntem senem.

   But look, I see the old man returning to the country.

2. (mostly elliptical) here!, or here am/are/is!; used to denote that something is present (compare French voici or Italian ecco)

   Quid cessāmus lūdōs facere? Circus noster ecce adest!

   Why should we stop playing games? We have our theatre here!

   Quid mē quaeris? Ecce mē.

   Are you searching for me? Here I am.

   Ecce.

   Here I am.

   Ecce odium meum. Quid mē vīs?

   See here my aversion. What is it you want with me?

   Ecce tuae litterae dē Varrōne.

   Lo and behold, your letters about Varro!

   • (Can we date this quote?), Stasimus in the play Trinummus by Titus Maccius Plautus

     Ecce hominem tē, Stasime, nihilī.

     See now, Stasimus, what a worthless fellow you are.

使用する際の注意点

• This word is sometimes used in the middle of a clause.

  Audiat haec tantum—vel qui venit ecce Palaemon.

• The interjection is particularly used after objects mentioned or enumerations, to introduce a new one with emphasis:

  Consecuti sunt hos Critias, Theramenes, Lysias, etc. ... ecce tibi exortus est Isocrates.

  They followed Critias, Theramenes, Lysias, etc. lo there arises Isocrates to thee.

同意語

• em

派生語

派生した語

• >? Neapolitan: ce
• >? Old French: es, ez, eis, as, ais
• →? Old Galician-Portuguese: aque
  • Galician: aque (medieval)

参考

• Ecce Quam Bonum (behold, how good)
• Ecce Homo (behold the man)
• Ecce Cor Meum (behold my heart)
• Ecce homo qui est faba (Behold the man who is a bean)

参照

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “ecce”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 202

Further reading

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