charybdisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Ancient Greek Χάρυβδις (Khárubdis).

発音

• IPA: /kəˈɹɪbdɪs/

固有名詞

Charybdis

1. A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XII. Lady Marchmont’s Journal.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 85:

     I have never yet been able to steer my lovers through the Scylla of presence, or the Charybdis of absence.

2. (Greek mythology) A personification of the above whirlpool as a female monster.
3. Any dangerous whirlpool.
   • 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:

     …that night, wee ſailed merrily by the Maſcarenas, a Charybdis in 21 degrees, var.13 and 17 minutes…

   • 1832, James Bell, A system of geography, popular and scientific:

     The tide here sets in alternately from N. to S. and from S. to N., which causes the whirlpool of Galofaro, the Charybdis of the ancients.

   • 1842 Schiller, Friedrich poem Der Taucher (written in 1797) published in English in Blackwood's Magazine volume 52

     Lo! the wave that for ever devours the wave / Casts roaringly up the charybdis again…

派生語

• between Scylla and Charybdis
• Charybdian
• charybdotoxin

参考

• Scylla

Further reading

• Charybdis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /kʰaˈryb.dis/, [kʰäˈrʏbd̪ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kaˈrib.dis/, [käˈribd̪is]

固有名詞

Charybdis f sg (genitive Charybdis); third declension

1. Charybdis

語形変化

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or -in, ablative singular in -ī), singular only.

参照

• “Charybdis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Charybdis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Charybdis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Charybdis in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung