Lucinaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 Lucina and Lucyna, from Latin Lūcīna.

発音

• IPA: /luˈsiːnə/, /luˈsaɪnə/
• 韻: -iːnə, -aɪnə

固有名詞

Lucina

1. An epithet of the Roman goddess Juno or (less often) Diana in the role of goddess of childbirth, midwives, and newborns.
   • 2005, Patricia Montley, chapter IL, in In Nature's Honor: Myths and Rituals Celebrating the Earth‎, page 5:

     Lucina, the Sabine goddess of light, was combined with the Roman Juno, and as Juno Lucina, goddess of childbirth, she brought children into the world.

2. A separate goddess of those fields, a daughter of Jupiter and Juno and counterpart to the Greek Eileithyia.
   • 2008, Laurie Sue Brockway, chapter IL, in The Goddess Pages: A Divine Guide to Finding Love and Happiness‎, page 184:

     Many believe the genesis of saint Lucy can be found in the mythology of two roman deities: Lucina, goddess of birth and light, who merged with the mother goddess Juno.

   • 2014, Alison Findlay, birth, entry in Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary, unnumbered page,

     He can only pray to Lucina, goddess of childbirth and 'gentle midwife/ To those that cry at night' to speed Thaisa's delivery (Per. 3.1.10–14), and has not even time to commit her body to the sea during the storm.

3. (astronomy) 146 Lucina, a Main Belt asteroid.
4. (rare) A female given name from Latin.

派生語

• Juno Lucina

アナグラム

• Alcuin, Lucian, uncial

参照

• “Lucina, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 June 2018.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /luːˈkiː.na/, [ɫ̪uːˈkiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /luˈt͡ʃi.na/, [luˈt͡ʃiːnä]

固有名詞

Lūcīna f sg (genitive Lūcīnae); first declension

1. Lucina, an epithet of the Roman goddesses Juno or Diana in their role as goddess of childbirth, midwives, and newborns.
2. Lucina, a Roman goddess of childbirth, midwives, and newborns, daughter of Jupiter and Juno.
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.451–452:

     parce, precor, gravidīs, facilis Lūcīnā, puellīs
     mātūrumque uterō molliter aufer onus.

     Spare, I pray – by [you it is] easily done, Lucina – the pregnant girls,
     and gently withdraw the ripened burden from the womb.

3. (New Latin, astronomy) Lucina, a Main Belt asteroid.

語形変化

First-declension noun, singular only.

派生語

参照

• “Lucina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Lucina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.