lepusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Unknown. Perhaps not an Indo-European word. It may be of Iberian origin, or else of Celtiberian substrate origin and related to Massaliot λεβηρίς (lebērís, “European rabbit”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɫɛ.pʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈlɛː.pus]

名詞

lepus m (genitive leporis); third declension

1. a hare

   Sextus videt leporem. ― Sextus sees the hare.

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.100:

     et lepus inpavidus mediīs errāvit in arvīs

     and hares wandered, unafraid, among the fields

2. a poisonous sea fish colored like the hare
   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Nātūrālis Historia 32.3:

     Nōn sunt minus mīra quae dē lepore marīnō trāduntur.

     No less wonderful, too, are the particulars which we find stated relative to the sea-hare.

3. (astronomy) the constellation Lepus
   • Hyginus, Dē Astronomiā:

     Leporis autem hanc historiam memoriae prōdidērunt.

     The following story of the Hare has been recorded.

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

等位語

• (hare): cunīculus, dasypūs

派生語

• leporārius
• leporīnus
• lepusculus

派生した語

参照

• “lepus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lepus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "lepus", 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)
• “lepus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.