qualumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Probably from the same root of Proto-Slavic *košь (“basket”). De Vaan finds a connection with the root of quatiō (“to shake, brandish”) conceivable. Perhaps related with cōlum (“strainer”).

名詞

quālum n (genitive quālī); second declension

1. wicker basket or hamper of various purposes, especially:
   1. (wine) a basket press, press basket
      • c. 4th-5th century, Servius, In Vergilii Georgica commentarii:

        qualos, per quos vinum defluit, qui et ipsi a colando dicti sunt

        the press baskets, through which the wine flows, the name is from colando (cōlō (“to filter, strain”)

   2. a wool basket
   3. a fruit or harvest hamper

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生語

• quasillum

参照

Further reading

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