Trimalchioとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Trimalchio (plural Trimalchios or Trimalchiones)

1. (rare) A nouveau riche.
   • 1923, C. K. Scott Moncrieff, “On Reading Petronius; An Open Letter to a Young Gentleman”, in The Satyricon of T. Petronius Arbiter:

     To name living examples of him would be actionable; besides, you are old enough, surely, to remember the Great War against Germany, and the host of Trimalchiones and Fortunatæ whom it enknighted and endamed.

   • 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 7, in The Great Gatsby:

     It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night—and, as obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio was over.

   • 2001, Stuart James Fleming, Vinum: The Story of Roman Wine, Art Flair, →ISBN, page 33:

     Pliny and his circle would have favored the former, but the Trimalchios of his time without question would have accepted the volatility and riskiness of the latter in the hope of dazzling short-term profits.

   • 2015, Allyson Booth, Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up‎, Springer, →ISBN:

     Eliot's epigraph is spoken by a Trimalchio, a dinner party host who is fond of pranks, careless of accuracy, and generally undependable.

Further reading

• Trimalchio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [trɪˈmaɫ.kʰi.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [triˈmal.ki.o]

固有名詞

Trimalchiō m sg (genitive Trimalchiōnis); third declension

1. a male given name
   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon:

     etiamnum loquebatur Menelaus, cum Trimalchio digitos concrepuit, ad quod signum matellam spado ludenti subiecit.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

語形変化

Third-declension noun, singular only.