ecqualisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ɛkˈkʷaː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ekˈkʷaː.lis]

形容詞

ecquālis (neuter ecquāle, adverb ecquāliter); third-declension two-termination adjective (hapax legomenon)

1. of which sort
   • c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 6.2.4:

     Scripsit autem Caesellius Q. Ennium in XIII. Annali "cor" dixisse genere masculino. Verba Caeselli subiecta sunt: "Masculino genere, ut multa alia, enuntiavit Ennius. Nam in XIII. Annali 'quem cor' dixit." Ascripsit deinde versus Ennii duo: "Hannibal audaci dum pectore de me hortatur / Ne bellum faciam, quem credidit esse meum cor?" Antiochus est qui hoc dixit, Asiae rex. Is admiratur et permovetur, quod Hannibal Carthaginiensis bellum se facere populo Romano volentem dehortetur. Hos autem versus Caesellius sic accipit, tamquam si Antiochus sic dicat: "Hannibal me ne bellum geram dehortatur; quod cum facit, e⟨c⟩quale putat cor habere me et quam stultum esse me credit, cum id mihi persuadere vult?"

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使用する際の注意点

• Attested only once, in Gellius; "ecquale" is widely printed by editors, although the main manuscripts use the spelling "equale". An alternative proposed emendation is "et quale" (Gruenler 1911:76, rejected as "non recte" by the TLL).
• Forms starting with ec- normally are indefinite in meaning and used to introduce polar (yes-no) questions (direct or indirect): e.g. ecquis typically means "anybody" (used in a polar question), not "who". However, the sense of Gellius's passage requires a content interrogative word: "what (kind of) heart", describing how Caesellius interpreted the words "quem ... cor?". Thus, ecquālis unexpectedly appears here to be more or less equivalent to bare interrogative quālis, quāle.

語形変化

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

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参照

Further reading

• “ecqualis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.