Iugumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈjʊ.ɡũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈjuː.ɡum]

語源 1

From Proto-Italic *jugom, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm, from *yewg- (“to yoke, harness, join”) + *-óm. Cognate with Sanskrit युग (yuga), Ancient Greek ζῠγόν (zŭgón), and Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐌺 (juk). Equivalent to a substantivization of the adjective iugus (“belonging together”).

名詞

iugum n (genitive iugī); second declension

1. (literal) a yoke (for oxen or cattle) or collar (for a horse)
   • 45 BCE, Cicero, De natura deorum 2.60.151:

     Nos onera quibusdam bestiis, nos iuga inponimus; […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 4.825–826:

     inde premēns stīvam dēsignat moenia sulcō;
     alba iugum niveō cum bove vacca tulit

     From there, pressing the plow handle, he marks out the city walls with a furrow; a white cow with a snow-white bull bore the yoke.
     (Romulus uses a plow to mark where the defensive walls of Rome are to be built. The flexibility of Latin word order allows Ovid to join bove vacca – ‘‘bull cow’’ – side-by-side, just as the two animals themselves would have been yoked for plowing.)

2. (transferred sense)
   1. a yoke, pair, team of draft oxen; a pair of horses; a chariot
      • 21 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De Re Rustica 1.19.3:

        Quod addit asinos, qui stercus vectent, treis, asinum molarium; in vinea iugerum iugum boum, asinorum iugum, asinum molarium; […]

        As to his addition of three donkeys to haul manure and one for the mill; for a vineyard of 100 jugera, a yoke of oxen, a pair of donkeys, and one for the mill; […]

      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 10.594:

        Lucage, nulla tuos currus fuga segnis equorum prodidit aut uanae uertere ex hostibus umbrae: ipse rotis saliens iuga deseris.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

      1. a pair of anything
         • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 10.5.16:

           ex eo notatum, non fere legionis umquam hiberna esse castra ubi aquilarum non sit iugum.

           (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   2. a juger of land

      Synonym: iūgerum

      • 1st c. BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Rerum rusticarum libri III 1.10:

        Ille, Modos, quibus metirentur rura, alius alios constituit. Nam in Hispania ulteriore metiuntur iugis, in Campania versibus, apud nos in agro Romano ac Latino iugeris. Iugum vocant, quod iuncti boves uno die exarare possint.

        Each country has its own method of measuring land. Thus in farther Spain the unit of measure is the iugum, in Campania the versus, with us here in the district of Rome and in Latium the iugerum. The iugum is the amount of land which a yoke of oxen can plough in a day.)

   3. in Kent, a yoke of land, quarter sulung
   4. (architecture) a horizontal beam or rail fastened perpendicular to a post or pole; a crossbeam, crossrail
      • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 17.35.175:

        Tertius vineae annus palmitem velocem robustumque emittit et quem faciat aetas vitem. hic in iugum insilit.

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      1. any of various types of horizontal structural member: the beam which united the upright posts of a loom, the crossbar of a lyre, the crossrail of a trellis, the thwart or cross-bench of a boat (the rower's bench)
         • 8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 6.55:

            […]: tela iugo vincta est, stamen secernit harundo, […]

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         • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 6.411:

           inde alias animas, quae per iuga longa sedebant, deturbat laxatque foros; simul accipit alueo ingentem Aenean.

           (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   5. a symbolic yoke of subjugation: a low makeshift archway of three spears under which a vanquished enemy was made to bend in humiliation as they passed by
      • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 1.7:

        Caesar, quod memoriā tenēbat L. Cassium cōnsulem occīsum exercitumque ēius ab Helvētiīs pulsum et sub iugum mīssum, concēdendum nōn putābat […] .

        Because Caesar remembered that the consul Lucius Cassius had been killed and his army routed and sent under the yoke by the Helvetians, he did not think their request should be granted.

   6. a scalebeam; (metonymic) a pair of scales; (astronomy) the Libra

      Synonyms: bilanx, lībra, statēra, trutina

      • 45 BCE, Cicero, De divinatione 2.47.98:

        L. quidem Tarutius Firmanus, familiaris noster, in primis Chaldaeicis rationibus eruditus, urbis etiam nostrae natalem diem repetebat ab iis Pardibus, quibus eam a Romulo conditam accepimus, Romamque, in iugo cum esset Luna, natam esse dicebat, nec eius fata canere dubitabat.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   7. the summit or ridge of a mountain; a chain or range of mountains
      • c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 2.10.1:

        Eius vero montis iugum se circumagens et media curvatura prope tangens oras maris Hadriani pertingit circumitionibus contra fretum.

        The ridge of this mountain range then bends in an arch and almost reaches the middle part of the Adriatic coast, while, completing the arch, it ends up touching the Strait (of Messina).

3. (figuratively) the bond (of slavery, matrimony, etc.)
   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Curculio 1.1.50:

     Iamne ea fert iugum?

     Does she as yet bear the yoke? (i.e. does she bear the yoke of matrimony; is she married?)

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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参考

• versus (land measure)

参照

Further reading

• “iugum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “iugum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "iugum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “iugum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to submit to the yoke of slavery: iugum servitutis accipere
    
  • to shake off the yoke of slavery: iugum servitutis excutere
    
  • to shake off the yoke of slavery: iugum servile a cervicibus deicere (Phil. 1. 2. 6)
    
  • to deliver some one from slavery: iugum servile alicui demere
    
  • to deliver some one from slavery: ab aliquo servitutem or servitutis iugum depellere
    
  • (ambiguous) a perpetual spring: aqua iugis, perennis
    
• “iugum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

形容詞

iugum

1. inflection of iugus:
   1. accusative masculine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular