deliquiumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

deliquium (plural deliquiums)

1. (physical chemistry) Liquefaction through absorption of moisture from the air.
2. (pathology) An abrupt loss of consciousness usually caused by an insufficient blood flow to the brain; fainting.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 387:

     If he be locked in a close room, he is afraid of being stifled for want of air, and still carries biscuit, aquavitæ, or some strong waters about him, for fear of deliquiums, or being sick […]

3. (literary, figuratively) A languid, maudlin mood.
4. (rare) An abrupt absence of sunlight, e.g. caused by an eclipse.

派生語

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

参照

• “deliquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “deliquium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.