Magnificoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

magnifico (plural magnificos or magnificoes)

1. (obsolete) A grandee or nobleman of Venice.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], pages 6–7:

     For be ſure of this, / That the Magnifico is much beloued, / And hath in his effect, a voyce potentiall, / As double as the Dukes, he will diuorce you, / Or put vpon you what reſtraint, and greeuance, That law with all his might to inforce it on, / Weele giue him cable.

   • 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados

     I know—I've heard—but no wealth of the imagination can ever really quite reconstruct Tupworthy, the shoddy magnifico, in his immense porcine complacency, his monumental self-importance.

2. (obsolete) A rector of a German university.

参照

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [maŋˈnɪ.fɪ.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [maɲˈɲiː.fi.ko]

動詞

magnificō (present infinitive magnificāre, perfect active magnificāvī, supine magnificātum); first conjugation

1. to prize, esteem highly
2. to praise, glorify, or extol
3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) to magnify

Conjugation

関連する語

派生した語

• → English: magnificate
• → Italian: magnificare
• → Middle French: magnifier
  • French: magnifier
  • → Middle English: magnifien
    • English: magnify
• → Portuguese: magnificar
• → Spanish: magnificar

参照

• “magnifico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “magnifico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “magnifico”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.