simia

猿，猴
- 埃纽斯（西塞罗在 De natura deorum，第I卷，第XXXV章提及）：
  Sīmia quam similis turpissima bēstia nōbīs!
  猿，最邪恶的野兽，多么像我们！
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.215–216:
  Sīmiārum quoque genera plūra. Hominis figūrae proxima caudīs inter se distinguntur. Mīra sollertia viscō inunguī laqueīsque calciārī imitātiōne vēnantium trādunt, Mūciānus et latrunculis lusisse, fictas cera nuces visu distinguere; lunam cavam triste esse quibus in eo genere cauda sit, novam exultatione adorari. nam defectum siderum et ceterae pavent quadripedes.
  Simiarum generi praecipua erga fetum adfectio. gestant catulos quae mansuefactae intra domos peperere, omnibus demonstrant tractarique gaudent, gratulationem intellegentibus similes, itaque magna ex parte conplectendo necant. efferatior cynocephalis natura sicut satyris. callitriches toto paene aspectu differunt; barba est in facie, cauda late fusa primori parte. hoc animal negatur vivere in alio quam Aethiopiae quo gignitur caelo.
  1855年，译者：John Bostock
  The different kinds of apes, which approach the nearest to the human figure, are distinguished from each other by the tail. Their shrewdness is quite wonderful. It is said that, imitating the hunters, they will besmear themselves with bird-lime, and put their feet into the shoes, which, as so many snares, have been prepared for them. Mucianus says, that they have even played at chess, having, by practice, learned to distinguish the different pieces, which are made of wax. He says that the species which have tails become quite melancholy when the moon is on the wane, and that they leap for joy at the time of the new moon, and adore it. Other quadrupeds also are terrified at the eclipses of the heavenly bodies. All the species of apes manifest remarkable affection for their offspring. Females, which have been domesticated, and have had young ones, carry them about and shew them to all comers, shew great delight when they are caressed, and appear to understand the kindness thus shewn them. Hence it is, that they very often stifle their young with their embraces. The dog's-headed ape is of a much fiercer nature, as is the case with the satyr. The callitriche has almost a totally different aspect; it has a beard on the face, and a tail, which in the first part of it is very bushy. It is said that this animal cannot live except in the climate of Æthiopia, which is its native place.
(贬义) 对人的贬称。
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使用注意编辑

一般作阳性，尤其用于贬义。

变格编辑

第一类变格名词 (dative/ablative plural in -īs or -ābus)。

格	单数	复数
主格	sīmia	sīmiae
属格	sīmiae	sīmiārum
与格	sīmiae	sīmiīs sīmiābus
宾格	sīmiam	sīmiās
夺格	sīmiā	sīmiīs sīmiābus
呼格	sīmia	sīmiae

派生语汇编辑

加泰罗尼亚语: ximia
英语: simian
法语: singe
意大利语: scimmia
罗曼什语: schimgia, schemia, schemgia, schiemgia
西班牙语: jimia
葡萄牙语: símia

参考资料编辑

simia in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
“simia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
simia在Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français (拉丁语-法语详解词典), Hachette中的内容