penuriaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Perhaps related to paene (“almost”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /peːˈnuː.ri.a/, [peːˈnuːriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /peˈnu.ri.a/, [peˈnuːriä]

名詞

pēnūria f (genitive pēnūriae); first declension

1. want, need, scarcity

   Synonyms: egestās, paupertās, dēsīderium, necessitās, inopia, indigentia, ūsus, opus, angustia

   Antonyms: dīvitiae, opulentia

   • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses (Apuleius) 4.28:

     […] at vērō puellae iūniōris tam praecipua, tam praeclāra pulchritūdō nec exprimī ac ne sufficienter quidem laudārī sermōnis hūmānī pēnūriā poterat.

     […] but the beauty of the youngest was so marvellous and dazzling that it could neither be expressed nor sufficiently praised by the paucity of human speech.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

• English: penury
• French: pénurie
• Italian: penuria
• Portuguese: penúria
• Sicilian: pinùria
• Spanish: penuria

参照

Further reading

• “penuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “penuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• penuria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.