pestisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

アナグラム

• IP sets, pistes, spiest, spites, stipes

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈpɛs.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈpɛs.t̪is]

名詞

pestis f (genitive pestis); third declension

1. disease, plague, pestilence, infection

   Synonyms: morbus, aegritūdō, malum, valētūdō, labor, infirmitas, incommodum

   Antonyms: salūs, valētūdō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.90:

     Quam simul ac tālī persēnsit peste tenērī [...].

     And as soon as [Juno] sensed that [Dido was now] gripped by such a plague [of passion] [...].
     (Erotic passion here is likened to a deadly disease.)

   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 76.20:

     Ēripite hanc pestem perniciemque mihi!

     And rid me from this pernicious plague!

2. a pest
3. destruction, ruin, death

   Synonyms: perniciēs, interitus, ruīna, cruciātus, exitium, vulnus, cāsus, clādēs, perditiō, excidiō, excidium, lētum, dēstrūctiō

語形変化

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

派生語

• pestibilis
• pestifer
• pestilēns
• pestilentia
• pestilentus

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “pestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pestis", 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)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the plague breaks out in the city: pestilentia (not pestis) in urbem (populum) invadit
    
  • to bring mishap, ruin on a person: calamitatem, pestem inferre alicui
    
  • to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: pestem alicui (in aliquem) machinari