bugiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From New Latin bugia, from Medieval Latin candēla Bugiae, candēla dē Bugia (“candle from Bejaia (a seaport town in northeastern Algeria from which they were exported)”), a calque of Middle French chandelle de Bougie. Doublet of bougie.

名詞

bugia (plural bugias)

1. A liturgical candlestick held beside a Latin Catholic bishop or other prelate.
   • 1853, J[ohn] D[uncan] Hilarius Dale, “Solemn Mass Sung by a Bishop in His Own Diocese”, in Ceremonial According to the Roman Rite. […] With the Pontifical Offices of a Bishop in His Own Diocese, Compiled from the “Cæremoniale Episcoporum.” […], London: Charles Dolman, […], →OCLC, article IV (The Pontifical Mass), pages 112–113:

     The Bishop having given his blessing to the Subdeacon, reads the Epistle, Gradual, Alleluia, Prose, and Gospel, after having said with joined hands the Munda cor meum, &c., and Dominus vobiscum: the book is supported by the Clerk, and the bugia held as usual.

   • 2010, Richard L. Rotelli, “Seminary Years: 1962 – 1963”, in “Let Me Be a Light”: The Faith Journey of Father Ron Lawson, West Conshohocken, Pa.: Infinity Publishing, →ISBN, pages 149–150:

     Additionally, since the seminarians had to serve at Masses at various times for monsignors or bishops in the different seminary crypt chapels, they had to learn how to be a bugia-bearer.

   • 2014, William C. Graham, “Bugia Bearers for the New Age”, in 100 Days Closer to Christ, Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, →ISBN, page 35:

     So, anyway, seeing the procession of young women with lighted phones in a darkened stairwell reminded me of all those bugia bearers bearing bugias. I hope they in that stairwell were and are as attentive to eternal truths as were those earliest prelates who prayed by the light from the bugia-borne candle.

参照

Further reading

• bugia (candlestick) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia