culcitaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Uncertain; proposed derivations include:

• According to Varro, from calcō (“I trample”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-. Cognates include Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos, “bosom”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *ḱol-bʰo-, like English half.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkʊɫ.kɪ.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkul̠ʲ.t͡ʃi.ta]

名詞

culcita f (genitive culcitae); first declension

1. mattress, pillow, cushion

   Synonyms: (pillow) pulvīnus, coxīnus, cervīcal

   • C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Nero Ch. 48:

     quadripes per angustias cauernae in proximam cellam decubuit super lectum modica culcita

     (having crept) on all fours through a narrow hole to the adjacent room, (he) lay down over a bed's miserable mattress

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• “culcita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “culcita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "culcita", 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)
• “culcita”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “culcita”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “culcita”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin