meretriciusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /me.reˈtriː.ki.us/, [mɛrɛˈt̪riːkiʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.reˈtri.t͡ʃi.us/, [mereˈt̪riːt͡ʃius]

形容詞

meretrīcius (feminine meretrīcia, neuter meretrīcium); first/second-declension adjective

1. meretricious: Of or related to prostitutes and prostitution.
   • 1719, William Musgrave, Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicae..., Vol. I, Cap. XII, § I:

     Prima Venerem repraesentat... In Caelum recepta rei Meretriciae praesedit...

     The first [statue] displays Venus... Received into Heaven, she presided over all things related to Whoring...

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

関連する語

派生した語

• → Catalan: meretrici
• → English: meretricious
• → Italian: meretricio
• → Portuguese: meretrício
• → Spanish: meretricio

参照

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