cupioとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkʊ.pi.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkuː.pi.o]

動詞

cupiō (present infinitive cupere, perfect active cupīvī or cupiī, supine cupītum); third (-iō variant) conjugation

1. to desire, long for

   Synonyms: requīrō, affectō, aveō, quaerō, studeō, concupiō, indigeō, petō, sitiō, expetō, circumspiciō, spectō, voveō, appetō

   Antonyms: āversor, abhorreō

   • 161 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Eunuchus 812–813:

     Nōvī ingenium mulierum: / nōlunt ubi vēlīs, ubi nolīs cupiunt ultrō.

     I know the ways of women: they are unwilling when you want [it]; [and] when you are unwilling, they desire [it] wantonly.

2. to please, favor, be well disposed towards (someone, something)

   Quod cupiō mēcum est. Inopem mē cōpia fēcit.

   What I desire is with me: Abundance made me destitute.

   • Cupio omnia quaevis.

     Your wishes are mine.

     (literally, “I favor whatever you want.”)

Conjugation

At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

派生語

派生した語

• Sardinian: cubere
• Walloon: keûre
• → Italian: cupere
• →⇒ English: cupiosexual

Reflexes of the Late Latin variant cupīre:

• Franco-Provençal: kvi, kevi
• Old French: covir
  • Norman: couvir
• Old Occitan: cobir
• >? Sardinian: cubire

Reflexes of the Late Latin variant cupiscere:

• Franc-Comtois: quevatre

参照

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “cŭpĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1551

Further reading

• “cupio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cupio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be favourably disposed towards: alicuius causa velle or cupere