pompatusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

pompatus

1. (nonce word) One who is pompous or splendid.
   • 2000, Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost, Picador,, →ISBN, page 140:

     She loved the way the lecturer stated it, offhand, but with the air of a pompatus.

   • 2011, Craig Robinson, Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure, →ISBN:

     It's a good job there was no need for a baseball infographic about “The joker” because I'd have been forced to use a terrible pun: the pompatus of glove.

   • 2014 November 6, Barryfromtexas, “Week 9 Thingy - Not Enough Heh to Go Around (Now with grammarfication)”, in SBNation:

     Ryan Mallett is the pompatus of offense.

   • 2015, Suanne Laqueur, Give Me Your Answer True, →ISBN:

     “And my mom is the pompatus of love,” Will said.

2. (nonce word) Pomp, ostentatiousness, or spectacle.
   • 2004, Michael Chabon, Michael Mignola, McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, →ISBN, page 84:

     It could be a whang-dang-doodle, a cloche hat made out of coyote fur, or a phylactery testifying to the pompatus of love.

   • 2010, Loren Berengere, Satirical Denouncements of the Wicked Americans and We Anti-Matriarchalists‎, page 98:

     Got my pompatus up; my rave'll be on in a few. I must have popped too many; the Iowa donkeys are starting to bray in my ears.

   • 2015, John Hornor Jacobs, Foreign Devils, →ISBN:

     All the pompatus of war. It would come.

   • 2015 June 26, Eric Zorn, “What same-sex marriage backers 'lost'”, in Chicago Tribune:

     If you're into the pompatus of Twitter, send email to […] and I'll sign you up for the newsletter that alerts you when the week's poll is posted.

参考

• Pompatus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [pɔmˈpaː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [pomˈpaː.tus]

Participle

pompātus (feminine pompāta, neuter pompātum); first/second-declension participle

1. acted or done pompously (with pomp)

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

形容詞

pompātus (feminine pompāta, neuter pompātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. splendid (with pomp)

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

参照

• “pompatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pompatus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.