Metuoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmɛ.tu.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmɛː.tu.o]

動詞

metuō (present infinitive metuere, perfect active metuī, supine metūtum); third conjugation

1. to fear, be afraid

   Synonyms: vereor, extimēscō, timeō, trepidō

   Romani ab Hannibale metuentes sunt

   The Romans are terrified of Hannibal

   • 68 BCE – 44 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 10.4.6:

     neque tam de suā vitā, quam de me metuit

     He is afraid not so much for his own life but for mine

2. (with dative) to be anxious or afraid about or for a specific person or thing
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.9:

     tantam ... crescentem molem sibi ac posteris suis metuebant

     they feared, both for themselves and their descendants, such growing power

3. (Ecclesiastical Latin, of religious fear) to revere, dread
   • Vulgate Bible Leviticus.19.30:

     Sabbata mea custodite, et sanctuarium meum metuite. Ego Dominus.

     Uphold my sabbath and revere my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

使用する際の注意点

• The verb metuō is a Latin verb of fearing.
• The term can be used with the prepositions ab, pro, or de.

Conjugation

参照

• “metuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “metuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “metuo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.