mortiferとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• mortiferus

語源

From mors (“death”) +‎ -fer (“-carrying”), literally “death-bearing”. Calque of Ancient Greek θανατηφόρος (thanatēphóros).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmɔr.tɪ.fɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmɔr.ti.fer]

形容詞

mortifer (feminine mortifera, neuter mortiferum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. deadly, fatal, lethal
   • Gospel of Mark, Vulgate, from 16:18

     Et sī mortiferum quid biberint nōn eōs nocēbit.

     And if they drink anything deadly it shall not harm them.

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

派生した語

• Catalan: mortífer
• → French: mortifère (learned)
• Italian: mortifero
• Occitan: mortifèr
• Portuguese: mortífero
• Romanian: mortifer
• Spanish: mortífero

参照

• “mortifer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mortifer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mortifer”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to drain the cup of poison: poculum mortis (mortiferum) exhaurire (Cluent. 11. 31)
    
  • to inflict a death-blow: plagam extremam or mortiferam infligere
    
  • to inflict a mortal wound on some one: mortiferam plagam alicui infligere
    
  • to be (seriously, mortally) wounded: vulnus (grave, mortiferum) accipere, excipere