Ravusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈraː.wʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈraː.vus]

形容詞

rāvus (feminine rāva, neuter rāvum); first/second-declension adjective

1. amber (color)
2. (of the eyes) amber, light brown, hazel
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 11.55:

     Media eorum cornua fenestravit pupilla, cuius angustiae non sinunt vagari incertam aciem ac velut canali dirigunt obiterque incidentia facile declinant, aliis nigri, aliis ravi, aliis glauci coloris orbibus circumdatis, ut habili mixtura et accipiatur circumiecto candore lux et temperato repercussu non obstrepat.

     The horny skin in the centre of the eye nature has furnished with the pupil as a window, the narrow opening of which does not allow the gaze to roam uncertain, but so to speak canalizes its direction, and easily averts objects that encounter it on the way; the pupil is surrounded with circles which with some people are coloured black, with others [amber] and with others blue, so that the light from the surrounding radiance both may be received in a suitable blend and having its reflexion moderated may not be jarring [...]

使用する際の注意点

• Used as the Roman equivalent of the Greek χαροπός (kharopós), and both are often misinterpreted as gray.
• Describes the eyes of humans and animals (e.g. dogs, rams, cockerels), and is also used of the early morning sea, lions, wolf's coat and other things. As a color, described by a Roman source as being between flāvus and caesius.
• Pliny the Elder describes rāvus as one of the human eye colors, along with niger and glaucus. In addition, caesius and caeruleus were also used in prose to describe eyes.

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

関連する語

• grāvāstellus (“old man”)

参考

参照

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