ceraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkeː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈt͡ʃɛː.ra]

名詞

cēra f (genitive cērae); first declension

1. wax, beeswax, honeycomb
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 3.747–748:

     audit in exēsa strīdōrem exāminis ulmō,
     aspicit et cērās dissimulatque senex

     [Silenus] hears the buzzing of a swarm in a hollowed-out elm tree,
     and the old man can see the honeycombs, yet he dissimulates [pretends as if he has found nothing].
     (Ovid's word play relates the ‘‘exesus’’ – the tree's ‘‘having been consumed’’ – with the ‘‘examen’’ or swarm, which Silenus mistakenly assumes are bees; instead, moments later when he looks inside the tree he is attacked by hornets.)

2. a wax seal
3. a wax image

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkeː.raː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈt͡ʃɛː.ra]

動詞

cērā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cērō

参照

Further reading

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