curiosusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [kuː.riˈoː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ku.riˈɔː.s̬us]

形容詞

cūriōsus (feminine cūriōsa, neuter cūriōsum, comparative cūriōsior); first/second-declension adjective

1. Careful, diligent, thoughtful, devoted.
2. Elaborate, complicated.
3. That injures himself by care; careworn, emaciated, wasted, lean.
4. (in a good sense) Curious, inquisitive.
5. (in a bad sense) Meddlesome, officious, prying, interfering, curious, inquisitive.
   • 1st c. BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum:

     Etenim si delectamur cum scribimus, quis est tam invidus qui ab eo nos abducat? [...] Sic isti curiosi, quos offendit noster minime nobis iniucundus labor.

     Indeed if I enjoy writing, who would be so spiteful as to keep me from it? [...] Thus are these meddlesome individuals to whom this my not at all unpleasant (to me) endeavor is offensive.

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

派生語

• cūriōsē
• cūriōsitās
• cūriōsulus
• incūriōsus

関連する語

派生した語

名詞

cūriōsus m (genitive cūriōsī); second declension

1. One who pries; a spy or scout; secret police, informer.

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

参照

• “curiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "curiosus", 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)
• curiosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 156