adoniumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Ancient Greek Ἀδώνιος (Adṓnios, “of Adonis”) and Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis, “Adonis”). The meaning referring to a plant is a misreading in Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia. The meaning referring to meter, μέτρον (métron, “meter”) Ἀδώνιον (Adṓnion), reportedly named for its use in the festival of Adonis.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈdoː.ni.um/, [aˈdoː.ni.ũ]

名詞

adōnium n (genitive adōniī または adōnī); second declension

1. (botanical)
   1. (possibly) a type of southernwood with a golden or bloodred flower (as if referring to the blood of Adonis)
   2. (possibly) a method of gardening
2. (grammar, meter, verse) a Adonic verse, a verse composed of a dactyl and spondee

使用する際の注意点

The precise meaning of adōnium as a botanical term is uncertain, though multiple meanings have been proposed.

語形変化

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

参照

• adōnium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “adonium”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• adonium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary], Hachette