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• systrum (obsolete)

語源

Borrowed from Latin sīstrum, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek σεῖστρον (seîstron), from σείω (seíō, “shake”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɪstɹəm/, /ˈsɪstɹʊm/
• 韻: -ɪstɹəm

名詞

sistrum (plural sistrums or sistra)

1. An ancient Egyptian musical instrument, to be shaken, consisting of a metal frame holding percussive metal beads.
   • 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:

     She moved with slow undulations of her body as lascivious as the curve of Hathfertiti’s hair, and the sistrum with its singing wires was played by a dwarf wearing nothing but a gold purse and a few bracelets on his stunted biceps.

アナグラム

• trismus, truisms

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈsiːs.trũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈsis.t̪rum]

名詞

sīstrum n (genitive sīstrī); second declension

1. sistrum

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生した語

Further reading

• “sistrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sistrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sistrum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sistrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sistrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin