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語源

Borrowed from Latin Prāxitelēs, from Ancient Greek Πρᾱξῐτέλης (Prāxitélēs).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /pɹakˈsɪtɪliːz/

固有名詞

Praxiteles

1. (Ancient Greece) The most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BCE, and the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue.
   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter X, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:

     The altar was adorned with the masterly sculptures of Praxiteles, who had, perhaps, selected from the favorite legends of the place the birth of the divine children of Latona, the concealment of Apollo after the slaughter of the Cyclops, and the clemency of Bacchus to the vanquished Amazons.

   • 1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter I, in The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC:

     Upon its surface of bronze were elaborately wrought, in the still exquisite workmanship of Greece, reliefs of the Olympian games; […] they paused motionless, as if suddenly transformed into stone—lifeless, but lifelike, as one of the breathing wonders of Praxiteles.

2. (astronomy) A crater on the planet Mercury measuring 182 km in diameter.
3. (astronomy) A main-belt asteroid discovered in 1973.

Further reading

• Praxiteles (sculptor) on Wikipedia.
• Praxiteles (crater) on Wikipedia.
• Praxiteles (asteroid) on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• terapixels

Latin

語源

From the Ancient Greek Πρᾱξῐτέλης (Prāxitélēs).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /praːkˈsi.te.leːs/, [präːkˈs̠ɪt̪ɛɫ̪eːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /prakˈsi.te.les/, [präkˈsiːt̪eles]

固有名詞

Prāxitelēs m sg (genitive Prāxitelis); third declension

1. Praxiteles (a celebrated Greek sculptor)

語形変化

Third-declension noun, singular only.

関連する語

• Prāxitelīus

派生した語

• English: Praxiteles
• French: Praxitèle

参照

• “Praxĭtĕles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Praxĭtĕlēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,234/1

Further reading

• Praxiteles on the Latin Wikipedia.