catapultaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

catapulta (plural catapultae or catapultæ)

1. A Roman catapult (weapon for launching projectiles).
   • 1801, Francis Grose, chapter 12, in A History of the English Army, volume 1, page 366:

     The projectile machines, or antient artillery, used by our ancestors about the time of the Norman invasion, were the scorpion, catapulta, balista, and onager of the Romans, with divers other species of the same machines, under a variety of different appellations.

   • 1863, Thomas de Quincey, Richard Bentley and Other Writings, page 128:

     This pantomime over, Bentley recoiled, with the spring of a Roman catapulta, to his natural pursuits.

   • 1863, "An Old Cricketer", The Cricket-Bat; and how to use it, page 90:

     The catapulta was formerly an engine of war, used by the Romans for casting javelins and stones against castellated walls. A modern form of catapulta has been constructed, with a view to do away with the necessity of bowling the ball.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ka.taˈpul.ta/, [kät̪äˈpʊɫ̪t̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ka.taˈpul.ta/, [kät̪äˈpul̪t̪ä]

名詞

catapulta f (genitive catapultae); first declension

1. a catapult

語形変化

First-declension noun.

関連する語

• catapultārius

派生した語

• → Catalan: catapulta
• → Corsican: catapulta
• → English: catapulta (learned)
• → German: Katapult
• → Italian: catapulta
• → Middle French: cacapulte, catapulte, cathapulte
  • French: catapulte
    • → Romanian: catapultă
  • → English: catapult
• → Polish: katapulta
• → Portuguese: catapulta
• → Spanish: catapulta

参照

• “catapulta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “catapulta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• catapulta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• catapulta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “catapulta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “catapulta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin