Ballistaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin ballista, from Ancient Greek βαλλίστρα (ballístra), from βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /bəˈlɪstə/

名詞

ballista (複数形 ballistas または ballistae または ballistæ)

1. (weaponry, historical) An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.

参考

• catapult

Latin

別の表記

• balista
• ballistra

語源

From Ancient Greek βαλλίστρα (ballístra), from βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /balˈlis.ta/, [bälˈlʲɪs̠t̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /balˈlis.ta/, [bälˈlist̪ä]
• Homophone: Ballista

名詞

ballista f (genitive ballistae); first declension

1. ballista

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

• arcuballista
• ballistārius
• ballistica
• carroballista

派生した語

参考

• catapulta
• onager

参照

• “ballista”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ballista”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ballista in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ballista in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “ballista”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ballista”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin