Picumnusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /piːˈkum.nus/, [piːˈkʊm.nʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piˈkum.nus/

固有名詞

Pīcumnus m (genitive Pīcumnī); second declension

1. a minor Roman god of the fields, matrimony, and fertility

使用する際の注意点

• One of two brother deities. Pīcumnus was a personification of the woodpecker (pīcus), and Pīlumnus was a personification of the pestle (pīlus); both were companions of Mars, and tutelary deities of married couples and newborns.
• Pīcumnus was also venerated as the god Sterquilinus (または Stercutus, Stercutius, Sterculius), who was the god of fertilization by manure (stercus).

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

参照

• Picumnus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press