Culcitaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Of uncertain origin^[1]; proposed derivations include:

• According to Varro, from calcō (“I trample”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *qu̯el-. Cognates include Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos, “bosom”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *ḱol-bʰo-, like English half.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.ki.ta/, [ˈkʊɫ̪.kɪ.t̪a]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.t͡ʃi.ta/, [ˈkul̠ʲ.t͡ʃi.t̪a]

名詞

culcita f (genitive culcitae); first declension

1. mattress, pillow, cushion

   • C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Nero Ch. 48:

     quadripes per angustias cauernae in proximam cellam decubuit super lectum modica culcita

     (having crept) on all fours through a narrow hole to the adjacent room, (he) lay down over a bed's miserable mattress

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

• → Breton: golc'hed
• Galician: cócedra, >? colcha
• Italian: coltrice
• Mozarabic:

  Arabic: كُوسيدْية‎ (cotsidia)

  Hebrew: כוֹסיִדיִה‎ (cotsidia)

• Old French: coilte, cuilte, coite
  • Anglo-Norman: quilte
    • → English: quilt, quoit
  • French: couette
  • Norman: couitte
• Portuguese: colcha
• Spanish: colcha
• → Welsh: cylched

参照

• culcita in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• culcita in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• culcita in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• culcita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• culcita in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• culcita in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin