英和和英

名詞

spado (複数形 spados または spadoes または spadones)

1. (now rare) Someone who has been castrated; a eunuch or castrato.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.9:

     an impotency, or total privation thereof, prolongeth life; and they live longest in every kind that exercise it not at all. And this is true, not only in eunuchs by nature, but spadoes by art […]

アナグラム

• APODs, apods

Latin

語源

From Ancient Greek σπάδων (spádōn).

名詞

spadō m (genitive spadōnis); third declension

1. eunuch

   Synonym: eunūchus

   • Martialis, Epigrammata 5.41.1:

     Spadōne cum sīs ēvirātior flūxō, [...]

2. an impotent person

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

参照

• “spado”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “spado”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• spado in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• spado in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette