Camenaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Casmēna
• Carmēna
• Camoena

語源

Older form in Casmēna. Traditionally associated with carmen (“chant, song, poem”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [kaˈmeː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [kaˈmɛː.na]

名詞

Camēna f sg (genitive Camēnae); first declension

1. a water-nymph of the Romans (e.g. Egeria)
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 1.21.3:

     lūcus erat, quem medium ex opācō specū fōns perennī rigābat aquā. quō quia sē persaepe Numa sine arbitrīs velut ad congressum deae inferēbat, Camēnīs eum lūcum sacrāvit, quod eārum ibi concilia cum conjuge suā Ēgeriā essent.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. a muse
   • c. 284 BCE – c. 204 BCE, Livius Andronicus, Odusia 1.1:

     Virum mihi, Camēna, īnsece versūtum.

     Tell me about a complicated man, Muse.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

• Camēnālis

派生した語

• → French: Camène
• → German: Kamene

参照

• “Camena”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Camena in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “Camena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press