Mysteriumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mɪˈstɪəɹɪəm/
• (General American) IPA: /mɪˈstɪɹiəm/
• ハイフネーション: mys‧te‧ri‧um

名詞

mysterium (plural mysteria)

1. (chemistry, alchemy, now historical) Any of various unknown elements thought to make up existing forms of matter, or a substance seen as an elemental or pure form of something else.
   • 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 263:

     There are many such mysteria: milk is a mysterium of cheese and butter, and cheese in turn a mysterium of maggots, which were thought to form spontaneously in rotting food.

2. (astronomy, now historical) The hypothetical source of a galactic radio emission at 1665 megahertz (later identified as due to hydroxyl radicals in interstellar space).

名詞

mystērium n (genitive mystēriī or mystērī); second declension

1. mystery (secret rite or worship)
2. secret
   • 6th century, Venantius Fortunatus, Vexilla regis, first stanza:

     Vexilla regis prodeunt
     Fulget crucis mysterium
     Quo carne carnis conditor,
     Suspensus est patibulo.

     The Banners of the King issue forth,
     the mystery of the Cross does gleam,
     where the Creator of flesh, in the flesh,
     from the cross-bar is hung.

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

関連する語

• mysterius

派生した語

• Old French: mistere, mystere
  • → Middle English: mysterie, mysterye, mistery, misterie, mystery
    • English: mystery
    • Scots: meestery
  • Middle French: mystere
    • French: mystère
• → Finnish: mysteeri, mysteerio
• → Spanish: misterio

参照

• “mysterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mysterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "mysterium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)