scortillumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [skɔrˈtɪl.lũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [skorˈtil.lum]

名詞

scortillum n (genitive scortillī); second declension

1. little whore (a young, small, inexperienced, cute, or unesteemed prostitute)
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 10.3:

     scortillum, ut mihi tum repente vīsum est […]

     A little whore, as it then immediately seemed to me, […]

   • 1719, William Musgrave, Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicae..., Vol. I, Cap. XII, § I:

     Prima Venerem repraesentat. Tam eximia fuit, tamque praeclara Veneris forma, quae illam Cinyrae, Regi Cyprio, cujus Scortillum erat, commendaret...

     The first [statue] displays Venus. So exceptional and so renowned was the body of Venus, which presumably commended her to Cinyras, the Cyprian’s king, whose little Whore she was...

2. little slut (a young, small, inexperienced, cute, or unesteemed sexually active woman)

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Further reading

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