quidamとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

quidam (plural quidams)

1. A nobody; a person of no importance. [from 16th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.12:

     A quidam gallant determined upon a time to surprise both my house and my selfe.

   • 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. IV, letter 77:

     She singing a miserable ditty, a bead-roll of lamentable rhymes, strung together by this Quidam!—This Henley!

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkʷiː.dãː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkʷiː.d̪am]

代名詞

quīdam (feminine quaedam, neuter quiddam); indefinite pronoun

1. someone, a certain one/thing; something
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 3.28.10:

     Quidam vitiis gloriantur.

     Some boast of their faults.

使用する際の注意点

Not to be confused with quidem.

語形変化

Indefinite pronoun.

An alternative masculine nominative/accusative plural form quēsdam occurs in Accius.
The genitive singular was spelled quoiusdam before the Augustan period.
The dative singular was spelled quoidam before the Augustan period.
The dative/ablative plural has a rare alternative form quīsdam/queisdam.

限定詞

quīdam (feminine quaedam, neuter quoddam); indefinite pronoun

1. a certain (person or thing), some (person or thing), one (in the sense of "a specific" person or thing not previously introduced in the present discourse)
   • 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe 647:

     Habitant hīc quaedam mulierēs pauperculae.

     Some poor women live here.

   • c. 62 BCE, Cicero, chapter 1, in Pro Archia Poeta‎, §2:

     etenim omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune vinculum et quasi cognatione quadam inter se continentur.

     Indeed all the arts, which pertain to humanity, have some common link and by a certain almost-kindred are held together.

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.1.1:

     Persuādē tibi hoc sīc esse ut scrībō: quaedam tempora ēripiuntur nōbīs, quaedam subdūcuntur, quaedam effluunt.

     Convince yourself that what I write is true: Certain moments are taken from us, some are stolen, still others vanish away.

語形変化

Indefinite pronoun.

An alternative masculine nominative/accusative plural form quēsdam occurs in Accius.
The genitive singular was spelled quoiusdam before the Augustan period.
The dative singular was spelled quoidam before the Augustan period.
The dative/ablative plural has a rare alternative form quīsdam/queisdam.

参考

参照

• “quidam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quidam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "quidam", 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)
• “quidam”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I have a few words to say on this: mihi quaedam dicenda sunt de hac re