Eridanusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Learned borrowing from Latin Ēridanus, from Ancient Greek Ἠρῐδᾰνός (Ērĭdănós).

発音

• IPA: /əˈrɪdənəs/

固有名詞

Eridanus

1. (astronomy) A large winter constellation of the northern sky. It lies near Orion and Cetus.
2. (with or without the, Greek mythology) A mythical river of northern Europe, rich in amber.

   Alternative form: Eridanos

   • 2024 January 4, Reda Wigle, “National Bird Day: Celebrate the kind you are based on your zodiac sign”, in New York Post‎, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 January 2024:

     When Cycnus, Phaeton’s lover/friend/relative/reports vary learned of his fate he wept so long and so loudly on the banks of the Eridanus that to ease his sorrow (and cease the sound) the gods turned him into a Mute swan and it is from this myth that the term ‘Swan Song’ originates.

派生語

• Eridani

アナグラム

• denarius, unireads, unraised

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [eːˈrɪ.da.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [eˈriː.da.nus]

固有名詞

Ēridanus m sg (genitive Ēridanī); second declension

1. (Greek mythology and poetry) synonym of Padus (“the River Po”)
2. (astronomy) Eridanus (constellation lying between Orion and Cetus)

語形変化

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

派生した語

参照

• “Ērĭdănus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Erĭdănus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 598/3.
• “Ēridanus” on page 616/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)