Demosとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /ˈdiːmɒs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdiˌmɑs/, /ˈdiˌmɔs/

名詞

demos (複数形 demoses または demoi)

1. (originally Ancient Greece) An ancient subdivision of Attica; (now also) a Greek municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together. [from 18th c.]
2. (political science, 単数形 または 複数形) The ordinary citizens of an ancient Greek city-state; hence, the common populace of a state or district (especially a democratic one); the people. [from 18th c.]
   • 2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin 2008, p. 323:

     When the demos took charge, law and order inevitably collapsed, or so they concluded.

語源 2

Inflected forms.

名詞

demos

1. plural of demo

アナグラム

• Domes, desmo, desmo-, domes, modes

Latin

語源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “[the common] people”).

発音

• dēmos: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdeː.mos/, [ˈd̪eːmɔs̠]
• dēmos: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.mos/, [ˈd̪ɛːmos]
• dēmōs: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdeː.moːs/, [ˈd̪eːmoːs̠]
• dēmōs: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.mos/, [ˈd̪ɛːmos]

名詞

dēmos m (genitive dēmī); second declension

1. a tract of land, a demos, a deme
2. the inhabitants of a dēmos: people, especially the common people
   • AD 77–79, Gaius Plinius Secundus (author), Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff (editor), Naturalis Historia (1906), book xxxv, chapter 30:

     pinxit demon atheniensium argumento quoque ingenioso. ostendebat namque varium: iracundum iniustum inconstantem, eundem exorabilem clementem misericordem; gloriosum…, excelsum humilem, ferocem fugacemque et omnia pariter.

     In his allegorical picture of the People of Athens, he has displayed singular ingenuity in the treatment of his subject; for in representing it, he had to depict it as at once fickle, choleric, unjust, and versatile; while, again, he had equally to show its attributes of implacability and clemency, compassionateness and pride, loftiness and humility, fierceness and timidity — and all these at once. ― translation from: John Bostock, The Natural History (1855), book xxxv, chap. 36

語形変化

Second-declension noun (Greek-type).

同意語

• (tract of land): pāgus (Pure Latin)
• (inhabitants of a demos):
  • (people): populus
  • (common people): vulgus

関連する語

• dēmocratia (Mediaeval Latin)

名詞

dēmōs m

1. accusative plural of dēmos

参照

• “dēmos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dēmŏs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 494/3

  Lists both senses.

  Lists only the “people” sense.