stellifyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English stellifien, from Middle French stellifier, from Medieval Latin stellificare, itself from Latin stella (“star”) + faciō (“make, do”).

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛl.ɪ.faɪ/

動詞

stellify (三人称単数 現在形 stellifies, 現在分詞 stellifying, 過去形および過去分詞形 stellified)

1. (transitive, mythology) To transform from an earthly body into a celestial body; to place in the sky as such

   In Classical mythology, being stellified was about the greatest posthumous honor for a mortal.

   • 1983, Douglas Brooks-Davies, The Mercurian Monarch: magical politics from Spenser to Pope, page 31:

     By the 'hissing snake' Spenser presumably means the scorpion sent by Diana that killed Orion. Like Orion it, too, was stellified. But since, as Scorpio, it rises in the east as Orion's sign sets in the west, the two were regarded as being kept forever apart, Orion perpetually avoiding in the heavens his vanquisher on earth.

2. (transitive, astronomy) To turn into a star.
   • 1989, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, 109: 75

     An alternative way to stellify the planet may be to not collapse Jupiter, but instead to introduce a collapsed object into its core.