multiviraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /mulˈti.u̯i.ra/, [mʊɫ̪ˈt̪iu̯ɪrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /mulˈti.vi.ra/, [mul̪ˈt̪iːvirä]

名詞

multivira f (genitive multivirae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) Woman that has had many husbands

   Antonym: univira

   • Minucius Felix, Octavius 22:

     alia sacra coronat univira, alia multivira , et magna religione conquiritur quae plura possit adulteria numerare.

     Some sacred places are crowned by a woman married once, others by a woman married many times, and those who are able to count more adulteries are sought after with religious zeal.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

参照

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