Pherecratesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Either from Latin Pherecratēs or directly from its etymon, Ancient Greek Φερεκρᾰ́της (Pherekrátēs).

発音

• IPA: /fɪˈɹɛkɹətiːz/

固有名詞

Pherecrates

1. A celebrated Athenian poet of the Old Comedy, living in the fifth century BCE (born after Crates and Cratinus but before Aristophanes, Eupolis, and Plato Comicus – so between c. 519 and c. 446 BCE), victorious at least thrice at the City Dionysia and the Lenaia in the 440s–430s, and inventor of the Pherecratean metre.

関連する語

Further reading

• Pherecrates on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “Phereʹcrates”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /pʰeˈre.kra.teːs/, [pʰɛˈrɛkrät̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /feˈre.kra.tes/, [feˈrɛːkrät̪es]

固有名詞

Pherecratēs m sg (genitive Pherecratis); third declension

1. Pherecrates (celebrated Athenian poet of the Old Comedy)
   • c. 500 CE, Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae
2. an old man from Phthia who features in one of the dialogues of Dicaearchus
   • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 1.21:

     Dicaearchus autem in eo sermone, quem Corinthi habitum tribus libris exponit, doctorum hominum disputantium primo libro multos loquentes facit; duobus Pherecratem quendam Phthiotam senem, quem ait a Deucalione ortum, disserentem inducit nihil esse omnino animum, et hoc esse nomen totum inane, frustraque animalia et animantis appellari, neque in homine inesse animum vel animam nec in bestia, vimque omnem eam, qua vel agamus quid vel sentiamus, in omnibus corporibus vivis aequabiliter esse fusam nec separabilem a corpore esse, quippe quae nulla sit, nec sit quicquam nisi corpus unum et simplex, ita figuratum ut temperatione naturae vigeat et sentiat.

語形変化

Third-declension noun, singular only.

派生した語

• → English: Pherecrates
• → French: Phérécrate
• → German: Pherekrates

関連する語

Further reading

• Pherecrates on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phĕrĕcrătēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1172/3.