PALLADIUMとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: pəlā'dēəm, IPA: /pəˈleɪdiəm/

語源 1

The sense of "safeguard" comes from Latin Palladium (the image of Pallas that protected Troy), from Ancient Greek Παλλάδιον (Palládion), from Παλλάς (Pallás), an epithet used before Athena.

名詞

palladium (plural palladia)

1. A safeguard.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     The trial by jury is the Palladium of our civil rights.

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

     [H]ow unspeakably ominous to dim Royalist participators; for whom Royalism was Mankind's palladium[.]

   • 1967, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufman, The Birth of Tragedy, published 1872, in 1967:

     The presupposition of the Prometheus myth is to be found in the extravagant value which a naive humanity attached to fire as the true palladium of every ascending culture.

語源 2

The element was named after Pallas, an asteroid that had been discovered two years before the element.

名詞

palladium (countable and uncountable, plural palladiums)

1. A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

派生語

関連する語

• Pallas

語源

From Ancient Greek παλλάδιον (palládion), neuter of παλλάδιος (palládios), Παλλάς (Pallás, “of Pallas”). See Pallas.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [palˈla.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [palˈlaː.di.um]

名詞

palladium n (genitive palladiī); second declension

1. palladium, one of perhaps several statues of Athena, as in the Iliad and Aeneid, believed to safeguard Troy, and later, various Italian cities

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).