apolloとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈpɒləʊ/
• (General American) IPA: /əˈpɑloʊ/
• 韻: -ɒləʊ
• ハイフネーション: Apol‧lo

語源 1

From Latin Apollō, from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

固有名詞

Apollo

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The son of Zeus and Leto (or Jupiter and Latona), and the twin brother of Artemis (or Diana). He was the god of light, music, medicine, and poetry; and prophecy, dance, manly beauty, and more.
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     ‘Blue are the hills that are far away,’ is an owercome in the countryside, and while at first on his side it may have been but a young man’s fancy, to her he was like the god Apollo descending from the skies.

2. (astronomy) The planet Mercury, when observed as a Morning Star.
3. (astronomy) Short for 1862 Apollo, an Apollo asteroid.
4. (NASA, space science) A United States space program, and the vehicles it created, used for human travel to the moon.

   Apollo 11 landed people on the moon for the first time.

5. (with "the") Apollo Theater, a music hall in New York City associated with African-American performers.
6. A butterfly of species Parnassius apollo, a large swallowtail with black and red spots on white wings.
7. A very handsome young man.
8. A male given name.
9. A placename.
10. (West Africa) Acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis.
    • 2005, Sefi Atta, Everything Good Will Come, Arris Books, page 11:

      After that, children in school said you could get Apollo, a form of conjunctivitis, by staring at an eclipse too long.

    • 2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters’ Street, Vintage (2010), page 133:

      Her eyes hurt and when her mother looked at her in the morning and worried that she had Apollo because her eyes were so red she did not tell her otherwise.

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “astronomy”): Hermes

派生語

• (NASA, space): pre-Apollo, post-Apollo

関連する語

• variants: Apollon, Apolo, Apollos

参考

• (Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hades, Hephaestus, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus

語源 2

From the object 1862 Apollo.

名詞

Apollo (plural Apollos)

1. (astronomy) An asteroid possessing an orbit that crosses the orbit of the Earth and an orbital period of over one year, with semimajor axes greater than 1 AU, and perihelion distances less than 1.017 AU.

参考

• Apollo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• palolo

語源

From Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn). Cognate with Faliscan 𐌀𐌐𐌏𐌋𐌏 (apolo).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [aˈpɔl.loː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [aˈpɔl.lo]

固有名詞

Apollō m (genitive Apollinis or Apollōnis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Apollo
   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 698:

     PAMPHILUS: Nōn Apollinis magis vērum atque hoc respōnsum est.

     PAMPHILUS: This answer is no more true than [the oracle] of Apollo.
     (See: Oracle of Delphi.)

   • c. 25 BCE, Ovid, Heroides, Letter 15: "Sappho Phaoni":

     Sume fidem et pharetram fies manifestus Apollo

     Take up string and quiver and you are Apollo manifest

語形変化

Third-declension noun (two different stems).

同意語

• Phoebus

派生語

• Apollināris
• Apollineus

参照

• “Apollo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Apollo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Apollo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Apollo”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “Apollo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Apollo”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray