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• klepsydra, klepsudra

語源

From Latin clepsydra, from Ancient Greek κλεψύδρα (klepsúdra), from κλέπτειν (kléptein, “to steal”) + ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”).

発音

• enPR: klĕp'sĭdrə, IPA: /ˈklɛpsɪdɹə/

名詞

clepsydra (plural clepsydras or clepsydrae)

1. Synonym of water clock, especially (historical) ancient Greek and Roman forms.
   • 1953, John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes, page 124:

     "The dull, unflavoured drops from life's clepsydra".

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 856:

     They sat among the choiring clepsydras of the evening garden, time elapsing in a dozen ways, allowing their cigars to go out, keeping a companionable silence.

派生語

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語源

From Ancient Greek κλεψύδρα (klepsúdra, “pipette, water clock”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkɫɛp.sy.dra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈklɛp.si.dra]

名詞

clepsydra f (genitive clepsydrae); first declension

1. water clock, clepsydra

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

• English: clepsydra

• Italian: clessidra

参照

• “clepsydra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “clepsydra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "clepsydra", 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)
• “clepsydra”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “clepsydra”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “clepsydra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “clepsydra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin