Viatorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /vaɪˈeɪt.əɹ/, /vaɪˈeɪ.tɔɹ/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /vʌɪˈeɪtə/
• 韻: -eɪtə(ɹ)

名詞

viator (複数形 viators または viatores)

1. (rare) A wayfarer, traveler.
   • 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:

     After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.

   • (Can we date this quote?), University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Viator, Univ of California Press (→ISBN), page 25:

     [The] notion of man as viator in search of perfection in history thus did not function as a legitimating idea for progress.

   • 2019, Reinhard Hütter, Bound for Beatitude A Thomistic Study in Eschatology and Ethics, Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, page 39:

     ... theological virtues and of the whole supernatural life in God on account of sanctifying grace. Aquinas understands the viator in the state of grace in  […]

2. (rare, historical) An apparitor, a summoner: a minor Roman official.
   • 1882, Titus Livius, Historiarum Romanarum quæ supersunt liber secundus, ed. by H. Belcher, page 198:

     The apparitor tribuni was a viator, whose most important function was that of arrest.

3. A person who is subject to a viatical insurance policy or a viatical settlement.
   • 2016, Howard M. Friedman, Anderson's Ohio Annotated Securities Law Handbook, 2016 Edition, LexisNexis, →ISBN:

     […] the viators are residents of different states, the viatical settlement […]

   • 2020, Deborah Bouchoux, Christine Sgarlata Chung, Business Organizations Law in Focus, Aspen Publishers, →ISBN, page 711:

     Viatical settlement providers purchase the policies from individual viators. Once purchased, these viatical settlement providers typically sell […]

参照

• Websters Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary, 1989.

Latin

語源

From viō (“to travel”) +‎ -tor, from via (“road, path”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯iˈaː.tor/, [u̯iˈäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈa.tor/, [viˈäːt̪or]

名詞

viātor m (genitive viātōris, feminine viātrīx); third declension

1. traveller, wayfarer

   Coordinate term: viātrīx

2. messenger

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

関連する語

• via

参照

• “viator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “viator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• viator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “viator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “viator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin