catervaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /kaˈter.u̯a/, [käˈt̪ɛru̯ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kaˈter.va/, [käˈt̪ɛrvä]

名詞

caterva f (genitive catervae); first declension

1. a crowd, a band, a troop, a retinue

   Synonyms: turba, manus, agmen

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.496–497:

     rēgīna ad templum fōrmā pulcherrima Dīdō
     incessit magnā iuvenum stīpante catervā

     The queen [arrives] at the temple – the exceedingly beautiful Dido – striding [in all her majesty] with a large retinue of youths escorting [her].

2. a group, flock, pack (of animals)
   • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.20:

     Miserum funestumque spectāmen aspexī: Thrasyleōnem nostrum catervīs canum saevientium cīnctum atque obsessum multīsque numerō morsibus laniātum.

     I witnessed a pitiable and dismal spectacle: our Thrasyleon was surrounded and besieged by packs of fierce dogs and wounded by a great number of bites.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

• → Catalan: caterva
• → Italian: caterva
• → Portuguese: caterva, catrefa, catréfia
• → Sicilian: caterba
• → Spanish: caterva

参照

• “caterva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caterva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "caterva", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• caterva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a theatrical company: familia, grex, caterva histrionum
    
  • the Chorus in Tragedy: caterva, chorus
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “caterva”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 98