aegrotusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ae̯ˈɡroː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [eˈɡrɔː.t̪us]

形容詞

aegrōtus (feminine aegrōta, neuter aegrōtum); first/second-declension adjective

1. sick, ill, diseased, suffering:
   1. (of the body)

      Salūs/voluntās aegrōtī, suprēma lēx.

      The health/will of the sick should be the supreme law.

      • 62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares IX.14.3:

        L. quidem Caesar, cum ad eum aegrotum Nepolim venissem, quamquam erat oppressus totius corporis doloribus, tamen ante, quam me plane salutavit, "o mi Cicero," inquit, "gratulor tibi, cum tantum vales apud Dolabellam, quantum si ego apud sororis filium valerem, iam salvi esse possemus; […]

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      • 68 BCE – 44 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum IX.10.3:

        Alia res nunc tota est, alia mens mea. Sol, ut est in tua quadam epistula, excidisse mihi e mundo videtur. Ut aegroto, dum anima est, spes esse dicitur, sic ego, quoad Pompeius in Italia fuit, sperare non destiti.

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      • c. 4th-5th century, Servius, In Vergilii Aeneidem commentarii II.140:

        Aut aegra trahebant duo mala significat, aut mortem aut aegritudinem prolixam. 'aegra' autem aegrota. Et bene addidit 'corpora', quia et animus aeger potest esse.

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   2. (of the mind)
      • c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus I.II.70–76:

        Quid tu igitur rogitas, tene obiurigem?
        nisi tu me mihimet censes dicturum male.
        Nam si in te aegrotant artes antiquae tuae,
        sin immutare vis ingenium moribus
        [aut si demutant mores ingenium tuom
        neque eos antiquos servas, ast captas novos]
        omnibus amicis morbum tu incuties gravem,
        ut te videre audireque aegroti sient.

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使用する際の注意点

aegrōtus is usually restricted to physical illness, it's use is mostly figurative when said of the mind, sometimes in a direct comparison with the physical; aeger is otherwise used.

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

派生語

• aegrōtō

参照

Further reading

• “aegrotus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aegrotus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “aegrotus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to treat as a patient (used of a doctor): aegrotum curare
    
  • to cure a patient: aegrotum sanare (not curare)
    
• Langenscheidt Pocket Latin Dictionary