molossusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin molossus, from Ancient Greek μολοσσός (molossós), properly "belonging to the Molossians", a people in the eastern part of Epirus.

名詞

molossus (複数形 molossuses または molossi)

1. (poetry) A metrical foot of three long syllables.

Latin

別の表記

• molossos

語源

From μολοσσός (molossós).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /moˈlos.sus/, [mɔˈɫ̪ɔs̠ːʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /moˈlos.sus/, [moˈlɔsːus]

名詞

molossus m (genitive molossī); second declension

1. A molosser dog
2. (poetry) A metrical foot ( - - - )

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

関連する語

• molossīnus
• molossicus
• Molossia

派生した語

• Translingual: Molossus

参照

• “molossus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• molossus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “molossus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers