palaestraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• palestra (US)
• palæstra (dated)
• palaistra

語源

Borrowed from Latin palaestra, from Ancient Greek παλαίστρα (palaístra, “wrestling school”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /pəˈliːstɹə/, /pəˈlaɪstɹə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /pəˈlɛstɹə/, /pəˈlistɹə/

名詞

palaestra (plural palaestras or palaestrae)

1. (historical) A public area in ancient Greece and Rome dedicated to the teaching and practice of wrestling and other sports; a wrestling school, a gymnasium. [from 15th c.]
   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     Athenian culture flourished in externalities, the open air of the agora and the nudity of the palestra.

2. An arena for literal or figurative combat; a battlefield. [from 15th c.]

アナグラム

• sarapatel

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [paˈɫae̯s.tra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [paˈlɛs.tra]

名詞

palaestra f (genitive palaestrae); first declension

1. wrestling school, palaestra; place of exercise; gymnasium
2. wrestling
3. (figuratively) rhetorical exercises; school of rhetoric, school
4. (figuratively) art, skill; dexterity
5. (figuratively, in the language of comedy) brothel

語形変化

First-declension noun.

同意語

• (wrestling school): oleum

関連する語

派生した語

参照

• “palaestra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “palaestra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "palaestra", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “palaestra”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “palaestra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “palaestra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin