siculaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

sicula (plural siculae)

1. (zoology) The hard, triangular apex of a graptolite from which it grows.

同意語

• virgula (obsolete)

派生語

• prosicula

アナグラム

• aulics, caulis, clusia

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈsiː.ku.la/, [ˈs̠iːkʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈsi.ku.la/, [ˈsiːkulä]

名詞

sīcula f (genitive sīculae); first declension

1. (hapax) diminutive of sīca (“dagger”) (used figuratively of the penis)
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, carmina 67.21, (Elegiac couplets):

     'Primum igitur, virgo quod fertur tradita nobis,
     falsumst. non illam vir prior attigerat,
     la͞nguĭdĭo͞r tĕnĕrā cu͞i pe͞ndēns sīcŭlă bētā
     nu͞mqua͞m sē mĕdĭa͞m su͞stŭlĭt a͞d tŭnĭca͞m

     First of all, what’s said, that she arrived to us a virgin, is false. The former man had not touched her; his little dagger, hanging limper than a soft beet, never lifted itself up to the middle of his tunic

使用する際の注意点

Compare the occasional figurative sexual use of other nouns denoting weapons such as machaera. Since the word sīcula only appears in this passage in Classical Latin, it's unclear to what extent its sexual sense was an established metaphor versus a situational euphemism.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

語源 2

形容詞

sicula

1. inflection of siculus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

形容詞

siculā

1. ablative feminine singular of siculus

参照

Further reading

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