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固有名詞

Cytherea

1. (Greek mythology) The goddess Aphrodite.
   • 1877, Henry Kendall, “Ode to a Black Gin”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 24:

     The gloved and jewelled bards who sing / Of Pippa, Maud, and Guinevere, / Have hardly done the 'handsome thing' / For you, my inky Cytherea.

アナグラム

• cheatery, eye chart, eyechart

語源

From Ancient Greek Κυθέρεια (Kuthéreia), from Ancient Greek Κύθηρα (Kúthēra, “Kythira”). Equivalent to Cythera +‎ -ea; see Cythereus.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ky.tʰɛˈreː.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [t͡ʃi.t̪eˈrɛː.a]

固有名詞

Cytherēa f sg (genitive Cytherēae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) Venus
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.257:

     parce metu, Cytherea: manent immota tuorum
     fata tibi [...]

     don't fear, Venus: your children's fates remain fixed

参照

• “Cythera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press