papyrianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From papyrus +‎ -ian.

形容詞

papyrian (comparative more papyrian, superlative most papyrian)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of papery, of, similar to, or related to paper.
2. Synonym of papyraceous, of, similar to, or related to papyrus.
   • 1997, Colin Hester, Diamond Sutra, Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 42:

     The Tuesday after baseball season ended Rud was stretched out on his side on the livingroom carpet, the sports section unfolded and papyrian before him.

   • 2009, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, “A Study of the Sapiential Tradition That Led to Our Works”, in Joyce Greer, transl., Greek Wisdom Literature and the Middle Ages: The Lost Greek Models and Their Arabic and Castilian Translations (Sapheneia: Contributions to Classical Philology; 14), Peter Lang, →ISBN, section IV (Sapiential literature in the Hellenistic age), page 70:

     In summary, for the Hellenistic epoch we must accept, in spite of the scarcity of papyrian documents, a widespread flowering of the gnomologies: some done by the authors themselves, like those of Epicurus or Demetrius of Phalerum; others edited by philosophers or anthologists who collected material from the previous age, although with little regard for fidelity (as is the case of the Seven Wise Men, Socrates, Epicharmus または Anacharsis).

   • 2014, Paul Kalligas, “Second Ennead”, in Elizabeth Key Fowden and Nicolas Pilavachi, transl., The Enneads of Plotinus: A Commentary, volume 1, Princeton, N.J.; Woodstock, Oxon: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 274:

     A similar radical distinction between “the whole” (to pan) and “its parts” (ta merē) is effected in the papyrian text (PGeneva 203) to which I referred earlier in note 4 of my introduction; […]

Reference

• “† papyrian, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2020.