pusillusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Proto-Italic *put-sle-los → *pussillos followed by degemination via the so-called "mamilla rule", from Proto-Indo-European *put-lo- (“son”), historically standing in relation to pullus (“young of an animal”) as a diminutive. Latin cognates include pusillus, putillus (“tiny”), pūsus (“boy”), possibly Vulgar Latin *pūtta (“whore”). Further cognate to Faliscan putellio (“little son”, nom.sg.), Oscan puklum (acc.sg.), Paelignian puclois (dat.pl.), Sanskrit पुत्र (putrá, “son, child”), Avestan ����������‎ (puθra, “child, son”), Lithuanian putýtis (“little bird”), Latvian putns (“bird”), Old Church Slavonic пътица (pŭtica, “bird”). For the correspondence pullus :: pusillus compare paullus :: pauxillus, vēlum :: vēxillum.

Compare pisinnus, pitinnus; see also putus, a ghost word. A connection of the stem *put- with puer is difficult to establish.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /puˈsil.lus/, [pʊˈs̠ɪlːʲʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /puˈsil.lus/, [puˈs̬ilːus]

形容詞

pusillus (feminine pusilla, neuter pusillum); first/second-declension adjective

1. very little, very small, tiny
   1. (contemptuously) puny, petty, insignificant

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

派生語

• pusillanimis
• pusillitās
• pusillulus

参照

• “pusillus”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• “pusillus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pusillus 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)
• pusillus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette