romulus
ロムルス
解説 Definition
Romulus は、ローマ建国伝説に登場する人物名です。一般に、双子の兄弟レムスとともに語られ、ローマの創建者として知られています。
Romulus is the legendary founder and first king of Rome in Roman tradition. He is commonly portrayed as the twin brother of Remus, with whom he was rescued and raised by a she-wolf before the events that led to the founding of the city.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
romulus は通常 Romulus と大文字で書くローマ建国伝説の固有名です。Rome と綴りが近いことを手掛かりに、双子 Remus と対にし、「Romulus and Remus」「legendary founder of Rome」という定型的な組み合わせで覚えます。歴史上の実在が確認された王ではなく神話的人物なので、myth、legendary founder、ancient Rome と共に使うのが要点です。
Write Romulus with a capital letter because it is a personal name. Link its opening letters with Rome, then learn it as part of the fixed pair “Romulus and Remus.” In Roman legend, the twins survive abandonment and are cared for by a she-wolf, but Romulus ultimately becomes the figure credited with founding Rome. Useful collocations include the myth of Romulus, the legendary founder of Rome, and Romulus and Remus. Keep legendary in the memory cue: the name belongs to Rome’s foundation tradition, not to a securely documented modern-style biography.
例文
The myth of Romulus is often discussed in courses on ancient Rome.
ロムルスの神話は、古代ローマを扱う授業でよく取り上げられます。
A museum label described Romulus as a legendary founder of Rome.
博物館の説明には、ロムルスがローマの伝説上の建国者だと書かれていました。
The student compared different versions of the story of Romulus.
その学生は、ロムルスの物語のさまざまな版を比較しました。
romulus の類義語・関連語
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romulus の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ローマ建国神話の創設者の名。ラテン語Romulusはroma（ローマ）に縮小辞-ulusが付いた形とされる。双子の兄弟レムス（Remus）と共に狼に育てられたと伝わる。Roma自体の語源は諸説あり、エトルリア語で「川」を意味するrumonに由来する説が有力。
Romulus is the Latin name of Rome’s legendary founder. Ancient and later writers naturally associated the name with Roma, “Rome,” and it has often been analyzed as Roma with the diminutive or name-forming suffix -ulus. The deeper origin of Roma itself remains disputed; proposed explanations include connections with Etruscan vocabulary, but no single derivation is certain. In English, Romulus is borrowed directly as the conventional Latin proper name used in accounts of Roman mythology.
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