colusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈko.lus/, [ˈkɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈko.lus/, [ˈkɔːlus]

名詞

colus f (genitive colī or colūs); variously declined, second declension, fourth declension

1. distaff: a tool used in spinning fiber, such as wool
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.817–818:

     Pallade plācāta lānam mollīre puellae
     discant et plēnās exonerāre colōs.

     Once Pallas's favor has been won: Let the girls learn [how] to soften wool,
     and [how] to unload their full distaffs.
     (‘‘Pallas’’ was an epithet for the patron of handicraft, the Greek goddess Athena, syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. See distaff and spinning.)

2. spinning, spun thread

語形変化

Second-declension noun or fourth-declension noun.

語源 2

Alternative form of cōlon (“the colon”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkoː.lus/, [ˈkoːɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈko.lus/, [ˈkɔːlus]

名詞

cōlus m (genitive cōlī); second declension

1. Alternative form of cōlon

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

参照

Further reading

• “colus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “colus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "colus", 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)
• colus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “colus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “colus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin