mellitulaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /melˈliː.tu.la/, [mɛlˈlʲiːt̪ʊɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /melˈli.tu.la/, [melˈliːt̪ulä]

名詞

mellītula f (genitive mellītulae); first declension

1. Used as a term of endearment, literally meaning little honey or little sweetheart.

   Synonyms: mel, melculus, mellilla, mellītus

   • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 3.22:

     Patere, ōrō tē, […] impertīre nōbīs ūnctulum indidem, per istās tuās papillās, mea mellītula.

     I beg you, please hand me a little ointment from there, I beg you by these pretty breasts of yours, my little sweetheart.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

関連する語

参照

• “mellitula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press