demensとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈdeː.mẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈdɛː.mens]

形容詞

dēmēns (genitive dēmentis, comparative dēmentior, superlative dēmentissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. out of one’s mind or senses: mad, raving, insane, crazy; more generally: foolish, reckless, distracted, infatuated

   Synonyms: stultus, īnsipiēns, stupidus, brūtus, fatuus, āmēns

   Antonyms: prūdēns, sapiēns, callidus, sollers

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.78-79:

     [...] Īliacōsque iterum dēmēns audīre labōrēs / exposcit, [...].

     And the toils of Ilium — again? [It’s a] mad [request, yet Dido wants] to hear [of them, and so] she implores [Aeneas to retell his tale], [...].
     (Unusual behavior: Dido asks Aeneas, night after night, to describe the fall of Troy and subsequent adventures that reinforce her heroic ideal of him.)

   • Lucas, XII XX:

     At Deus sīc eum interpellāvit: 'O dēmēns, hac nocte reposcetur ā tē anima tua, quæ vērō parastī, cujus erunt?'

     .....: 'O fool,....?'

語形変化

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

派生語

• dēmenter
• dēmentia
• dēmentiō
• dēmentō

派生した語

参照

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