consternoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From cōn- +‎ sternō

動詞

cōnsternō (present infinitive cōnsternere, perfect active cōnstrāvī, supine cōnstrātum); third conjugation

1. to strew over, bestrew, cover by strewing, spread, bespread; cover, thatch
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.443–444:

     [...] it strīdor, et altae / cōnsternunt terram concussō stīpite frondēs; [...].

     [The wind and the oak tree:] the blowing [wind] shrieks, and as the trunk shudders, the lofty leaves strew down upon the ground; [...].

Conjugation

語源 2

Same prefix and root as above; derivation of the ending is disputed. Can be interpreted as con- +‎ sternō +‎ -ō (compound verb suffix). Can alternatively be explained as a durative.

動詞

cōnsternō (present infinitive cōnsternāre, perfect active cōnsternāvī, supine cōnsternātum); first conjugation

1. to alarm, shock, startle, terrify, throw into confusion

   Synonyms: perterreō, terreō, exterreō, conterreō, absterreō, deterreō, exciō

Conjugation

The perfect stem and perfect passive participle stem may alternatively be cōnstrāv- and cōnstrāt-, the same as for cōnsternere.

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “consterno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “consterno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “consterno”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the horses are panic-stricken, run away: equi consternantur