Quadrigaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /kwɒdˈɹiː.ɡə/, /kwəˈdɹiː.ɡə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /kwɑˈdɹi.ɡə/, /kwɑˈdɹaɪ.ɡə/
• 韻: -aɪɡə, -iːɡə

名詞

quadriga (plural quadrigae or quadrigas)

1. (historical) A Roman racing chariot drawn by four horses abreast.
   • 1830, Charles Taylor, Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, in five volumes, volume III, page 425

     In the Vatican Library is a vase of terra cotta, on whose upper part we see delineated the sun and moon, in a quadriga, which proceeds forward [travels, voyages, fulfils its course] upon a ship. […] Both these deities stand in a quadriga, which indeed is the vehicle proper to the sun, insomuch that the Rhodians every year threw into the sea a quadriga, dedicated to this divinity.

   • 1898 (May), A. W. Hands, "Chats on Roman coins with young collectors", Monthly Numismatic Circular 66, col. 2719

     On another denarius we see Victory holding a wreath and driving a quadriga […]

2. (historical) A team of four horses, or sometimes other animals, especially as used in chariot racing.

関連する語

• quadrigal

参考

• quadriga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [kʷaˈdriː.ɡa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [kʷaˈdriː.ɡa]

名詞

quadrīga f (genitive quadrīgae); first declension

1. quadriga

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• “quadriga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "quadriga", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “quadriga”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “quadriga”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “quadriga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers