sterceiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Perhaps a humorous formation stercus (“dung, manure”) +‎ -eius (nomen-gentilicium-forming suffix) in Tertullian. Compare to stertēia.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /sterˈkei̯.i̯a/, [s̠t̪ɛrˈkɛi̯ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /sterˈt͡ʃe.ja/, [st̪erˈt͡ʃɛːjä]

名詞

sterceia f (genitive sterceiae); first declension

1. a maidservant who cleans the excrement from children
   • c. 160 CE, Tertullian, Adversus Valentinianos 8:

     Quārē nōn et sterceiae et syntrophī nōminantur?

     Why are excrement maids or childhood companions not also named?

語形変化

First-declension noun.

参照

• “sterceia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sterceia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.