basiliskとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English basilicke, borrowed from Old French basilique, from Latin basiliscus, from Ancient Greek βασιλίσκος (basilískos, “字義どおりに, a minor king または chieftain; also, a kind of snake so called from a white spot on the head resembling a crown”), from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæs.ɪ.lɪsk/, /ˈbæz.ɪ.lɪsk/

名詞

basilisk (複数形 basilisks)

1. A mythical snake-like dragon, so venomous that even its gaze was deadly.

   The deadly look of the basilisk

   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     And without more ado she [...] fixed her wonderful eyes upon me - more deadly than any Basilisk's - and pierced me through and through with their beauty, and sent her light laugh ringing through the air like chimes of silver bells.

   1. (science fiction) An information hazard, especially a Langford's basilisk.
      • 2019 June 13, Tom Chivers, The AI Does Not Hate You‎^[2], Orion Publishing Group, →ISBN:

        A basilisk, in this context, is information that can hurt you simply because you are aware of it.

2. (heraldry) A type of dragon used in heraldry.
3. A tree-dwelling type of lizard of the genus Basiliscus: the basilisk lizard.
   • 1965 (March), Boys' Life (page 52)

     As a guide to start your collection we'd suggest either iguanas, tejus, swifts, basilisks, horned toads or alligator lizards.

4. A type of large brass cannon.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IV, scene i:

     Awake ye men of Memphis, heare the clange
     Of Scythian trumpets, heare the Baſiliſkes,
     That roaring, ſhake Damaſcus turrets downe, […]

形容詞

basilisk (not comparable)

1. Suggesting a basilisk (snake-like dragon): baleful, spellbinding.
   • 1870, The British drama: illustrated, volume 4, page 997:

     Well, She is so basilisk; there’s no death in her eyes […]

   • 1884, M. L. O'Byrne, Ill-won Peerages, Or, An Unhallowed Union, page 126:

     her gaze became more basilisk in its expression, and her countenance bore some similitude to that of a handsome fiend

   • 2004, Witi Tame Ihimaera, Whanau II, page 167:

     He had never seen her quite like this, so basilisk, so frightening