veretrumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯e.re.trum/, [ˈu̯ɛrɛt̪rʊ̃ˑ] or IPA: /u̯eˈret.rum/, [u̯ɛˈrɛt̪rʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈve.re.trum/, [ˈvɛːret̪rum] or IPA: /veˈret.rum/, [veˈrɛt̪rum]

名詞

veretrum n (genitive veretrī); second declension

1. the external genitals (male or female), penis, vulva; the clitoris

   Synonyms: verenda, pudenda, genitālia, partēs, membra, nātūra

   • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Menippeae 282:

     dein immittit virile veretrum

   • first century AD, Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 4.14, (iambic senarius):

     ā fi͞ctĭōnĕ vĕrĕtrī li͞ngua͞m mŭlĭĕris. / Affinitatem traxit inde obscenitas.

使用する際の注意点

Although several sources (Isidore, De Vaan) cite this word as referring specifically to the male genitals, the 4-5th century physician Caelius Aurelianus uses it to refer to the female reproductive organ as a whole. This restriction would also make redundant the phrase virīle veretrum (in Varro).

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生語

• veretilla

参照

Further reading

• “uerētrum” on page 2244 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• “veretrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “veretrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• veretrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• veretrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.