Nugaeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Unknown. Perhaps a borrowing from another Italic language, cognate with nux (“nut”) and naucum (“nutshell, trifle”).

Compare typologically Russian семе́чки (seméčki), ещё цвето́чки (ješčó cvetóčki).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈnuː.ɡae̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈnuː.d͡ʒe]

名詞

nūgae f pl (genitive nūgārum); first declension

1. jokes, jests

   Nōlī nūgās prōferre!

   Do not utter nonsense!

2. trifles
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 1.3–4:

     Corneli, tibi: namque tu solebas / meas esse aliquid putare nugas

     To you, Cornelius: since you used to regard my trifles to be something

3. worthless people

使用する際の注意点

• The singular nūga is not used classically, but is attested in New Latin.

語形変化

First-declension noun, plural only.

派生語

参照

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