confluusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkõː.fɫu.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkɔɱ.flu.us]
• ハイフネーション: cōn‧flu‧us

形容詞

cōnfluus (feminine cōnflua, neuter cōnfluum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (post-classical, Ecclesiastical Latin, sometimes figurative) assembled, congregated (flowing together)
   • 400 CE, Prudentius, Liber Cathemerinon 5.76, (quoted in L&S):

     in sēmet revolāns gurgite cōnfluō

     flying back into itself, I flow together in the gurges sg

   • a. 431 CE, Paulinus of Nola, Carmina 18.114, (quoted in Gaffiot):

     tōtīs ergō quibus stīpātur cōnflua turbīs

     with all the crowds, therefore, by which the confluence is packed

   • 673 CE – 735 CE, Beda Presbyter, In Ezram et Neemiam 918, (quoted in DMLBS):

     ministrōrum multitūdō […] ā quibus cōnflua turba populī docērī […] dēbēret

     a multitude of ministers […] by whom the flowing crowd of people ought to be taught […]

   • p. 1099, Goscelin, monk of Canterbury, Historia translationis S. Augustini 19B, (quoted in DMLBS):

     episcopus […] omnī populō cōnfluō […] dat benedictiōnem

     the bishop […] gives a blessing […] to all the people flocking together

   • c. 1180 – c. 1194, Joseph of Exeter, De Bello Trojano I.528.(535), (quoted in DMLBS):

     undique sīdereī majestās conflua mundī, ¶ Īliacum dignāta solum, juga, mēnia, pontum ¶ vestit

     from all sides the flowing majesty of the starry universe, having deigned to visit the Trojan soil, clothes the ridges, the walls, and the sea

   • 1414, Thomas Elmham, Treasurer of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, Historia monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis 132, (s613; quoted in DMLBS):

     archiepiscopus […] prēsente rēge, cum cōnfluīs turbīs sānctum corpus […] Augustīnī trānstulit in […] ecclēsiam cōnsecrātam

     the archbishop […] in the presence of the king and with crowds flocking together, translated the holy body […] of Augustine into the […] consecrated church

   • a. 1466, John Flete, History of Westminster Abbey [to 1386] 39, (quoted in DMLBS):

     missās dēdicāciōnis populō cōnfluō peragat

     he should perform the dedication masses with the people flocking together

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

Further reading

• “conflŭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cōnfluus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 1458
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “confluus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• “confluus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 388.