caeruleusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Dissimilation of *caeluleus, derived from caelum (“sky, heaven”) +‎ -uleus (diminutive suffix). However, in Classical Latin the word is attested as denoting the color of the rainy sky and that of deep water, and was on the whole associated with water.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [kae̯ˈrʊ.ɫe.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [t͡ʃeˈruː.le.us]

形容詞

caeruleus (feminine caerulea, neuter caeruleum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Deep water blue: the deep (blue) color associated with water and with the rainy sky
   1. Dyed or colored blue
      1. (particularly) Colored with woad
   2. Used as an epithet of sea and river deities or things connected with them
   3. (of serpents) Glossy greenish-blue
   4. (of persons) Blue-eyed
   5. Dark-colored, dusky, gloomy
      1. (of clouds and shadows)
      2. (of things in or associated with the underworld)
   6. (as a proper name) A spring and aqueduct at Rome
2. (rare) Of or connected with the sky, celestial

使用する際の注意点

• In spite of its etymology, in Classical Latin this word was typically connected to the deep (blue) color of moving water primarily and to the sky only secondarily, denoting a darkened sky that may rain. From there, it was also connected to darkness.

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

派生語

• caerula
• caerulāns
• caeruleātus
• caeruleum

派生した語

• → English: cerulean
• → French: céruléen
• → Italian: ceruleo
• → Portuguese: cerúleo
• → Romanian: ceruleu
• → Spanish: cerúleo

参考

参照

• “caeruleus” on page 278 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

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