cicisbeoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Italian cicisbeo, of onomatopoeic origin.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌtʃɪtʃɪzˈbeɪəʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌt͡ʃit͡ʃəzˈbeɪoʊ/
• 韻: -eɪəʊ

名詞

cicisbeo (複数形 cicisbeos または cicisbei)

1. (now chiefly historical) A man who escorts a married woman to social functions, especially in eighteenth-century Italy; a married woman's lover.
   • 1784, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana, 7 December:

     My old Cicisbee says it would do: & he is (または was poor fellow!) a famous Scholar.

   • 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. II, 19:

     The office of Cicisbeo is however an intolerably expensive one; especially to our countrymen.

   • 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:

     Of course a cicisbeo is a normal enough figure in Alexandrian life, but things are going to become socially very boring for you if you go out with those two so much.

   • 1962, WH Auden & Elizabeth Mayer, translating JW Goethe, Italian Journey, Penguin 1970, p. 452:

     He accuses the women of having cicisbei, the girls of having lovers.

派生語

• cicisbeism

関連する語

• cicisbea