dubiusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈdu.bi.us/, [ˈd̪ʊbiʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈdu.bi.us/, [ˈd̪uːbius]

形容詞

dubius (feminine dubia, neuter dubium); first/second-declension adjective

1. Moving in two directions alternately, vibrating to and fro, fluctuating, wavering
2. (figuratively) Vacillating in mind, wavering, uncertain, doubting, doubtful, dubious, irresolute, undetermined

   Synonyms: incertus, suspensus, vagus, anceps

   Antonyms: fixus, prōmptus, indubius

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.55:

     [...] spemque dedit dubiae mentī, solvitque pudōrem.

     [...] and [Anna] gave hope to [Dido’s] wavering mind, and absolved [her sister’s sense of] shame.

3. (of a situation) Precarious, dangerous, critical, difficult, adverse, doubtful, in doubt

   Synonyms: perīculōsus, īnfēnsus, anceps, capitālis

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.781:

     exitus in dubiō est

     The result is in doubt

4. (of weather) Changeable, uncertain

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → English: dubious
• → Italian: dubbio
• → Portuguese: dúbio
• → Sicilian: dùbbitu
• ⇒ Translingual: Dubiaranea

参照

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “dubius”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 180
• Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “dubius”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 375

Further reading

• “dubius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dubius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "dubius", 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)
• dubius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a critical position; a hopeless state of affairs: res dubiae, perditae, afflictae
    
  • vague rumours reach us: dubii rumores afferuntur ad nos
    
  • to throw doubt upon a thing: in dubio ponere
    
  • to leave a thing undecided: aliquid in medio, in dubio relinquere (Cael. 20. 48)
    
  • without doubt, beyond all doubt: sine dubio (not sine ullo dubio)
    
  • (ambiguous) to throw doubt upon a thing: in dubium vocare
    
  • (ambiguous) to become doubtful: in dubium venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to leave a thing undecided: aliquid dubium, incertum relinquere