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発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [kaˈwɛr.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [kaˈvɛr.na]

名詞

caverna f (genitive cavernae); first declension

1. a hollow, cavity, cave, cavern, grotto, hole
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 8.420:

     striduntque cauernis / stricturae Chalybum et fornacibus ignis anhelat

     Chalybian ores hiss in the caverns, and from the furnace mouths puff the hot-panting fires

   • Geoffrey of Monmouth, Prophesies of Merlin:

     Vae rubeo draconi; nam exterminatio eius festinat. Cavernas ipsius occupabit albus draco, qui Saxones quos invitasti significat.

     Woe to the red dragon; for his doom hastens. The white dragon, which represents the Saxons whom you invited, will seize his caves.

   1. a vault, chamber, cleft of heaven
   2. a hold (cargo compartment of a ship)
   3. (vulgar, euphemistic) bodily orifice
      • c. 310 CE – c. 394 CE, Ausonius, Epigrams 79 Subscriptum Picturae Mulieris impudicae:

        Crispa tamen cunctas exercet corpore in uno: deglubit, fellat, molitur per utramque cavernam, ne quid inexpertum frustra moritura relinquat.

        Crispa, however, practises them all with one body: she masturbates, fellates, and is worked at either hole, lest she should die in vain leaving anything untried.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

派生語

• cavernātim (adverb)
• cavernō (verb)
• cavernōsus (adjective)
• cavernula (diminutive)

関連する語

派生した語

参照

• “caverna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caverna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “caverna”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.