vetustasとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [wɛˈtʊs.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [veˈtus.tas]

名詞

vetustās f (genitive vetustātis); third declension

1. old age
2. long existence or duration
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 5.129–132:

     praestitibus Maiae Laribus vīdēre Kalendae
     āram cōnstituī parvaque signa deum.
     vōverat illa quidem Curius: sed multa vetustās
     dēstruit, et saxō longa senecta nocet

     The Calends of May beheld an altar erected to the Guardian Lares, and little statues of the gods. Indeed, Curius had dedicated them; but a long existence destroys many [things], and prolonged age is damaging to stone.
     (See Manius Curius Dentatus.)

3. antiquity

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

• → English: vetusty, vetustity
• → French: vétusté
• → Italian: vetustà

形容詞

vetustās

1. accusative feminine plural of vetustus

参照

• “vetustas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vetustas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vetustas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be very old friends: vetustate amicitiae coniunctum esse
    
  • to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
    
  • an old proverb which every one knows: proverbium vetustate or sermone tritum (vid. sect. II. 3, note tritus...)
    
  • time assuages the most violent grief: vel maximos luctus vetustate tollit diuturnitas (Fam. 5. 16. 5)