supernalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French supernel or Medieval Latin supernalis, from Latin supernus, from superum (“celestial regions, heavenly bodies”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /suːˈpɜː.nəl/, /sjuːˈpɜː.nəl/, /sʊˈpɜː.nəl/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /suˈpɝ.nəl/, /sʊˈpɝ.nəl/, /səˈpɝ.nəl/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl

形容詞

supernal (comparative more supernal, superlative most supernal)

1. Pertaining to heaven or to the sky; celestial.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, published October 1922, OCLC 2297483:

     […] and there, after due prayers to the gods who dwell in ether supernal, had taken solemn counsel whereby they might, if so be it might be, bring once more into honour among mortal men the winged speech of the seadivided Gael.

2. Exalted, exquisite, superlative.
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, “chapter 6”, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

     Even the sunlight assumed a supernal glamour, as if some special atmosphere or exhalation mantled the whole region.

   • 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:

     Pig, not normally reticent in these matters, now acted like a mystic after a vision; unable, maybe unwilling, to put in words this ineffable or supernal talent of Panky’s.

   • 1974, Michael Kandel, The Cyberiad, translation of original by Stanisław Lem:

     For what did Cauchy know, or Christoffel,
     Or Fourier, or any Boole or Euler,
     Wielding their compasses, their pens and rulers,
     Of thy supernal sinusoidal spell?

同意語

• (pertaining to heaven): celestial, heavenly
• (exalted, exquisite): exalted, exquisite

反意語

• (pertaining to heaven): earthly, infernal
• (exalted, exquisite): infernal

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