semianimisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From semi- +‎ animis (Can this etymology be sourced? Particularly: “shouldn't this be semi- + anmimus + -is ?”)

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [seː.miˈa.nɪ.mɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [se.miˈaː.ni.mis]

形容詞

sēmianimis (neuter sēmianime); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. half alive, half lifeless, half dead; partly, nearly or almost dead; expiring, dying
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.686-687:

     [...] sēmianimemque sinū germānam amplexa fovēbat
     cum gemitū, atque ātrōs siccābat veste cruōrēs.

     [Anna] held her near lifeless sister in her bosom and was caressing her, with a groan, and was trying to stanch the dark blood with her dress.
     (The scansion is four syllables, the first “i” consonantal: sēm-yah-ni-mem. Here Dido is literally near death; cf. Aeneid 4.672 for Anna’s figurative exanimis.)

語形変化

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

参照

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