fascinumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæsɪnəm/

名詞

fascinum (複数形 fascina)

1. (historical, occult) An ivory phallus used in certain ancient erotic rites.
   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:

     Here are some brides of ten compelled to seat themselves on the fascinum, the virile ivory in the temples of classical scholarship.

   • 1988, Leonard R. N. Ashley, The Amazing World of Superstition, Prophecy, Luck, Magic & Witchcraft, Random House Value Publishing, →ISBN, page 107, →ISBN:

     Today people use a four-leaf clover, the pompom from a European sailor’s hat, the fascinum (winged phallus, some of which were found in the ruins of Pompeii かつ seemed to have done little good there), and so on.

Latin

別の表記

• fascinus

語源

Unknown; compare Ancient Greek βάσκανος (báskanos, “sorcerer, slanderer”, adjective かつ noun), possibly from the same European substrate language.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfas.ki.num/, [ˈfäs̠kɪnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfaʃ.ʃi.num/, [ˈfäʃːinum]

名詞

fascinum n (genitive fascinī); second declension

1. (originally) a charm, spell, witchcraft
2. (by extension) a phallus-shaped amulet worn around the neck as a preventive against witchcraft
   1. a penis, phallus, especially that of a human
   2. an artificial phallus, dildo

      c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 138:

      Prōfert Oenothea scorteum fascinum, quod ut oleō et minūtō pipere atque ū̆rtīcae trītō circumdedit sēmine […]

      Then Oenothea takes out a leather dildo and, having covered it in oil, pepper and ground nettle seeds […]

   3. a kind of seashell

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生語

• fascinō
• fascinōsus
• praefiscini

関連する語

• fascinātiō
• fascinātor
• fascinātōrius

派生した語

• → English: fascinum
• Italian: fascino
• ⇒ Portuguese: fascínio

参照

• “fascinum” on page 743 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

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