impiusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɪm.pi.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈim.pi.us]

形容詞

impius (feminine impia, neuter impium, comparative magis impius, superlative maximē impius or impiissimus or impīssimus or impientissimus, adverb impiē); first/second-declension adjective

1. disloyal, undutiful
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.495–497:

     “[...] et arma virī thalamō quae fīxa relīquit
     impius, exuviāsque omnīs, lectumque iugālem
     quō periī: superimpōnās [...].”

     “And the man’s weapons that he left hanging in our bedchamber — [so] disloyal! — and all his clothes, and the bridal bed on which I was ruined: pile [everything] on top [of the pyre].”
     (Dido alludes with disdain to the epic’s recurrent epithet for its hero — e.g.: “Sum pius Aeneas,” 1.378 — now that this so-called dutiful man has abandoned her.)

2. godless, impious, unpatriotic
3. damned, accursed
4. wicked
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs. 28.15:

     leō rugiēns et ursus ēsuriēns prīnceps impius super populum pauperem

     As a roaring lion, and a hungry bear, so is a wicked prince over the poor people. (trans.: Douay-Rheims Bible)

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

派生語

派生した語

参照

• “impius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “impius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• impius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.