abactorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Late Latin abactor (“cattle rustler”), from abigō (“drive away”); from ab (“from, away from”) + agō (“drive”).^[1]

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæˌbæk.tɚ/, /æˈbæk.tɚ/

名詞

abactor (複数形 abactors)

1. (law, archaic) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:rustler

   • 1659, H. Hammond, A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon the Books of the Psalms:

     […] not only from straying, but, as in time of warr, from invaders and abactors […]

   • 1992, Okkūr Mācāttiyar, K.G. Seshadri, transl., “Purananuru 279”, in Indian Literature, volume 35, number 149, page 27:

     But yesterday, / it was her husband / Who’d lost his life in the fight / As he beat the abactors back, / Who tried to seize their cattle.

下位語

• horse thief, sheepstealer, napper (廃れた用法)

参照

アナグラム

• CATOBAR, acrobat

Latin

語源

From abigō (“drive away”), from ab (“from, away from”) + agō (“drive”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈbaːk.tor/, [äˈbäːkt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈbak.tor/, [äˈbäkt̪or]

名詞

abāctor m (genitive abāctōris); third declension

1. A cattle thief; abactor or rustler.
   • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.26:

     ...meum vero Bellerophontem abactorem indubitatum cruentumque percussorem criminantes...

     ...and as for my Bellerophon, they accused him of being an undoubted rustler and a bloody murderer.

   • c. 300 CE – 400 CE, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus, Pauli Sententiae V.18:

     Abactores sunt qui unum equum, duas equas, totidemque boves, vel capram decem, aut porcos quinque abegerint.

     Rustlers are those who drive away one stallion, two mares, as many cattle, or ten goats, or five pigs.

   • c. 600 CE – 625 CE, Isidorus Hispalensis, Etymologiae 10.14:

     Abactor est fur iumentorum, et pecorum, quem vulgo abigeum vocant, ab abigendo scilicet.

     Abactor is a thief of draft animals and domestic animals, whom they call in vulgar Latin abigeus, naturally derived from abigendo.

2. A man who abducts.
   • c. 334 CE – 337 CE, Julius Firmicus Maternus, Matheseos Libri VIII Liber VI.31.6:

     Si vero in aquosis signis fuerint constituti, pecorum abactores efficient, insequentibus hominibus minaci semper gladio resistentes.

     But if they are arranged in the water signs, they create abductors of domestic animals, opposing chasing men with an ever-threatening sword.

   • c. 343 CE – 350 CE, Julius Firmicus Maternus, De Errore Profanarum Religionum Cap V:

     Virum vero abactorem bovum colentes sacra eius ad ignis transferunt potestatem, sicut propheta eius tradidit nobis dicens...

     Their sacrifices, worshipping that man, abductor of the bull (Mithras), bring power to the fires, as their prophet imparted to us, saying...

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

同意語

• (cattle thief): abigeātor, abigeus

関連する語

派生した語

• → English: abactor
• → Portuguese: abactor

参照

• “abactor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abactor 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)