VANITASとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈvæn.ɪˌtɑs/

名詞

vanitas (plural vanitases)

1. (painting) A type of still life painting, symbolic of mortality, characteristic of Dutch painting of the 16th and 17th centuries.
   • 2009 March 6, Holland Cotter, “Change and Permanence, Captured by Cameras”, in New York Times‎:

     In her straight-ahead photographs of storefronts, an arrangement of shoes or shrink-wrapped furniture becomes a vanitas still life.

参考

• memento mori

Further reading

• vanitas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Ivatans

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈwaː.nɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈvaː.ni.tas]

名詞

vānitās f (genitive vānitātis); third declension

1. emptiness, nothingness

   vanitas vanitatum ― vanity of vanities

2. falsity, falsehood, deception, untruth, untrustworthiness, fickleness
3. vanity, vainglory

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

• vānitāre

派生した語

参照

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