vulcanusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Unknown, possibly borrowed via Etruscan from Doric Greek Ϝέλχανος (Wélkhanos).^[1]

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯ulˈkaː.nus/, [u̯ʊɫ̪ˈkäːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vulˈka.nus/, [vulˈkäːnus]

固有名詞

Vulcānus m (genitive Vulcānī); second declension

1. (Roman mythology) Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalwork, considered equivalent to the Greek Hephaestus and various German and Celtic gods.

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

“Vulcan” (Roman god of fire):

“Vulcano” (a small volcanic island north of Sicily; named for the Roman belief that it was the chimney of Vulcan):

• Italian: Vulcano
• Sicilian: Vurcanu

“volcano” (named for the island of Vulcano):

• Italian: vulcano (see there for further descendants)
• Sicilian: vurcanu (see there for further descendants)

参照

Further reading

• “Vulcānus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Vulcānus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette