breviculusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [brɛˈwɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [breˈviː.ku.lus]

形容詞

breviculus (feminine brevicula, neuter breviculum); first/second-declension adjective

1. diminutive of brevis (“short”): somewhat short, a little short
   • c. 206 BCE – 188 BCE, Plautus, Mercator 3.4.51–53:

     Ego dīcam tibi: / cānum, vārum, ventriōsum, bucculentum, breviculum, / subnigrīs oculīs, oblongīs mālīs, pānsam aliquantulum.

     I shall tell you: / grey-haired, bow-legged, pot-bellied, wide-mouthed, a little short, / with blackish eyes, with longish jaws, a somewhat broad-footed man.

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

参照

• “breviculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “breviculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.