SIROCCOとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Italian scirocco (“south-east wind”).

発音

• IPA: /sɪˈɹɒkoʊ/, /ʃɪˈɹɒkoʊ/

名詞

sirocco (plural siroccos)

1. A hot and often strong southerly to southeasterly wind on the Mediterranean that originates in the Sahara and adjacent North African regions.

   Synonym: (Libya) ghibli

   • 1814, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Corsair, i:14:

     But come, the board is spread; our silver lamp / Is trimm’d, and heeds not the sirocco’s damp.

   • 1888, Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist 1:

     This tolerance and largeur of the heart that ‘forgives’ Everything because it ‘understands’ Everything, is sirocco for us.

     [original: Diese Toleranz und largeur des Herzens, die Alles „verzeiht“, weil sie Alles „begreift“, ist Scirocco für uns.]

2. (colloquial) A draft of hot air from an artificial source of heat.
   • 2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Random House, →ISBN, page 113:

     In the hearth at the north wall a large fire cracked and lisped, flushing the room with a dry sirocco that caused frozen skin to tingle.

派生語

参照

• Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 4, 1896, page 4286

Further reading

• sirocco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia