Sanguisugaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Literally, “a bloodsucker”, from sanguī̆s (“blood”) +‎ sūgō (“suck”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [saŋ.ɡʷiːˈsuː.ɡa], [saŋ.ɡʷɪˈsuː.ɡa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [saŋ.ɡʷiˈs̬uː.ɡa]

名詞

sanguī̆sūga f (genitive sanguī̆sūgae); first declension

1. a leech

   Synonym: hirūdō

   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Proverbs.30.15:

     sanguī̆sūgae duae sunt fīliae dīcentēs adfer adfer

     The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring, bring. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

2. a vampire, an undead being which harms people and is implied to consume blood
   • 1610, William di Newburgh, Guillelmi Neubrigensis Angli, ... De rebus Anglicis suis temporis, libri quinque. Nunc primum auctiores 11. capitulis hactenus desideratis, & notis Ioannis Picardi Bellouaci ..., page 650:

     nec terrorem [alt.: territi] iuuenes, quos ira stimulabat, exanimo corpore retulerunt [alt.: vulnus exanimi corpori intulerunt]: ex quo tantus continuò sanguis effluxit, vt intelligeretur sanguisuga fuisse multorum.

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語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• “sanguisuga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "sanguisuga", 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)
• “sanguisuga”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.