draconcopedisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

By assimilation from dracontopedes, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent”) +‎ πούς (poús, “foot, leg”).

名詞

draconcopedis m (genitive draconcopedis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) draconcopedes, a legendary being with a human head and the body of a snake
   • c. 1200, Vincent of Beauvais, “Speculum naturale - Liber vicesimus”, in Speculum maius, page 249:

     Draconcopedes serpentes magni sunt et potentes: facies virgineas habentes humanis similes, in draconum corpus desinentes.

     The draconcopedes are big and powerful: they have human maidenly faces, ending with the body of serpents.

   • c. 1200, Albertus Magnus, “Liber XXV de natura serpentum”, in De animalibus‎^[1]:

     Draconcopodes dicunt Graeci serpentem magnum de ordine tertio et genere draconum quem dicunt vultum virgineum imberbis hominis habere

     The draconcopedes are what the Greeks call a large serpent of the third class and of the dragon genus which, they say, has the maidenly face of an unbearded man