potisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈpɔ.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈpɔː.tis]

形容詞

potis / pote (comparative potior, superlative potissimus) (chiefly pre-classical or poetic)

1. (potis) able, capable; is able

   Near-synonym: potēns

   • c. 211 BCE, Plautus, Rudens 68:

     Hunc [vidulum] homo feret a me nemo, ne tu te speres potis.

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   • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 551–552:

     Nam ex ūnō puteō similior numquam potis
     aqua aquāī sūmī quam haec est atque ista hospita.

     Surely you could never draw waters from a single well as like as she is with our guest.

   • c. 197 BCE, Plautus, Persa 580 (potis (for potes elsewhere) is only found in the Ambrosian palimpsest (A)):

     Atque aut hoc emptore vendes pulchre, aut alio non potis.

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   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 88–90 (the reading potis is found in the codex vetus Camerarii, most editors give potest):

     Et hic quidem hercle, nisi qui colaphos perpeti
     potis parasitus frangique aulas in caput,
     [vel] ire extra portam Trigeminam ad saccum licet.

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   • c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 1.2.17–20:

     Sed vero duae [mulieres], sat scio, maxumo uni
     poplo cuilubet plus satis dare potis sunt,
     quae noctes diesque omni in aetate semper
     ornantur, lavantur, tergentur, poliuntur.

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   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 5.2.17:

     At ea subterfugere potis es pauca, si non omnia.

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   • c. 206 BCE – 188 BCE, Plautus, Mercator 330–332:

     Hoc [filio] nunc mihi viso opust,
     huic persuadere quo modo potis siem,
     ut illam vendat neve det matri suae, […]

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   • c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitruo 3.2.22:

     Potin ut abstineas manum?

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   • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina 5.58:

     Terra enim et Caelum, ut mothracum initia docent, sunt dei magni, et hi quos dixi multis nominibus, non quas amoracia ante portas statuit duas virilis species aeneas dei magni, neque ut volgus putat, hi Samothraces dii, qui Castor et Pollux, sed hi mas et femina et hi quos Augurum Libri scriptos habent sic "divi potes," pro illo quod Samothraces θεοὶ δυνατοί.
     Laetus, for mothracum.   Laetus, for ambracia.   Laetus, for imagini.   Laetus, for diui qui potes.   Aug., for ΤΗεΟεδΥΝΑΤΟε.

     • Translation by Roland Grubb Kent. In two volumes, I, books V.–VII., 1938, page 54–55 containing Marcus Terentius Varro's de lingua latina V, X, 58:

       For Earth and Sky, as the mysteries of the Samothracians teach, are Great Gods, and these whom I have mentioned under many names, are not those Great Gods whom Samothrace represents by two male statues of bronze which she has set up before the city-gates, nor are they, as the populace thinks, the Samothracian gods, who are really Castor and Pollux; but these are a male and a female, these are those whom the Books of the Augurs mention in writing as "potent deities," for what the Samothracians call "powerful gods."
       Mystic rites in honour of the Cabiri.   An island in the northern Aegean, off the coast of Thrace.   The Cabiri, popularly identified with Castor and Pollux, since they were all youthful male deities to whom protective powers were attributed.   Page 16 Regell.

   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 1.451–452:

     Coniunctum est id quod nusquam sine permitiali
     discidio potis est seiungi […]

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   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 11.148:

     at non Euandrum potis est uis ulla tenere

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2. (potis / pote) possible, feasible; (pote) it is possible

   Synonym: possibilis (post-classical)

   quantum pote ― as soon as possible

   (post-classical) quam pote ― as much as possible

   • c. 197 BCE, Plautus, Persa 1.1.31–33:

     Si tu tibi bene esse
     pote pati, veni: vives mecum,
     basilico accipiere victu

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   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 35:

     Quid si hoc potis est ut tu taceas, ego loquar? ― Lepide, licet.

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   • c. 189 BCE, Plautus, Truculentus 1.2.69–70 (also read as potest):

     Qui potis est, amabo, planius? Qui antehac amator summus
     habitu's, nunc ad amicam venis querimoniam deferre.

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   • c. 186 BCE, Plautus, Aulularia 2.4.31–32:

     Censen talentum magnum exorari pote
     ab istoc sene ut det, qui fiamus liberi?

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   • 165 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Hecyra 3.395–397:

     Nunc si potis est, Pamphile,
     maxume volo doque operam ut clam partus eveniat patrem
     atque adeo omnis.

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   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 3.1079:

     Certe equidem finis vitae mortalibus adstat
     nec devitari letum pote, quin obeamus.

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   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 67.11:

     'Non (ita Caecilio placeam, cui tradita nunc sum)
     culpa mea est, quamquam dicitur esse mea,
     nec peccatum a me quisquam pote dicere quicquam: […]

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   • 68 BCE – 44 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 4.13:

     Sed mehercule velim res istas et praesentem statum rei publicae, et quo animo consules ferant hunc σκυλμόν, scribas ad me quantum pote.

     • Translation by E. O. Winstedt, - In Letters to Atticus, in three volumes, I, 1912, pp. 302–303

       But I hope to goodness you will write me as full a description as possible of that affair and of the present state of politics and tell me how the consuls are taking all this pother.

   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata 9.15.1–2:

     Inscripsit tumulis septem scelerata virorum
     'Se fecisse' Chloe. Quid pote simplicius?

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