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語源

From Latin Sāturnālia, a festival of the winter solstice.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˌsætəˈneɪli.ə/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌsætɚˈneɪli.ə/, /ˌsætɚˈneɪljə/

名詞

saturnalia (複数形 saturnalias)

1. A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence; a period of unrestrained revelry.
   • 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 3, page 260:

     a man who mounts the Hustings, must not allow himself to be sore-boned, or he invites his opponents to 'touch him on the raw,' not in the exercise of their malice, but their power; an election is a saturnalia."

   • 1905, Upton Sinclair, chapter XXVI, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, OCLC 1150866071:

     They lodged men and women on the same floor; and with the night there began a saturnalia of debauchery—scenes such as never before had been witnessed in America.

   • 1922, James Frazer, chapter 14, in The Golden Bough:

     If at the birth of the Latin kings their fathers were really unknown, the fact points either to a general looseness of life in the royal family or to a special relaxation of moral rules on certain occasions, when men and women reverted for a season to the licence of an earlier age. Such Saturnalias are not uncommon at some stages of social evolution.

   • 1922, Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood: His Odyssy, ch XXVIII

     Yet if he remained, it would simply mean that his own and Hagthorpe's crews would join in the saturnalia and increase the hideousness of events now inevitable.

   • 1961, Joseph Heller, chapter 34, in Catch-22:

     It was a raw, violent, guzzling saturnalia that spilled obstreperously through the woods to the officers' club and spread up into the hills toward the hospital and the antiaircraft-gun emplacements.

   • 2001, Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys:

     We advanced into the main hall, already aroar with a saturnalia of sozzled gestures and gibbering.

関連する語

• Saturn
• saturnalian
• saturnian