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発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ɛkˈsɪ.ɡu.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [eɡˈziː.ɡu.us]

形容詞

exiguus (feminine exigua, neuter exiguum); first/second-declension adjective

1. strict, exact
2. paltry, inadequate, small, scanty, slight, little

   Synonyms: parvus, brevis

   Antonym: adaequātus

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.211–212:

     “Fēmina, quae nostrīs errāns in fīnibus urbem
     exiguam pretiō posuit [...].”

     “A woman, astray, who planted her little town along our shores for a price [...].”
     (A resentful King Iarbas mocks Queen Dido who purchased the land to found Carthage instead of taking it by force.)

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

派生語

• exiguē
• exiguō
• exiguum

派生した語

名詞

exiguus m (genitive exiguī); second declension

1. a poor man

   Synonyms: inops, pauper, egens

   Antonyms: opulentus, opulens, locuplēs, dives, dis, ditis

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

関連する語

• exigō

参考

• exīlis

参照

• “exiguus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exiguus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "exiguus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “exiguus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • for a short time: brevis or exigui temporis
    
  • to start from small beginnings: ab exiguis initiis proficisci
    
  • little money: pecunia exigua or tenuis
    
  • a small force: exiguae copiae (Fam. 3. 3. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) for a short time: ad exiguum tempus
    
  • (ambiguous) to incur debts on a large scale: grande, magnum (opp. exiguum) aes alienum conflare