뜻

1. 동굴, 굴, 구렁, 골
2. 동굴, 석굴

1. cave, chasm, abyss
2. grotto

예문

• Qui cum neque pervadere foraminum aditus, nec amendatos intus prolicere possent ad decernendum, collectam stipulam et sarmenta specuum faucibus aggesserunt. (Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum libri qui supersunt, Liber XXIIII, chapter 4 30:2)

  (암미아누스 마르켈리누스, 사건 연대기, , 4장 30:2)

• igitur dux Romanus diversis artibus, misericordia adversum supplices, celeritate adversus profugos, immitis iis qui latebras insederant ora et exitus specuum sarmentis virgultisque completos igni exurit. (Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, LIBER XIV, chapter 23 23:4)

  (코르넬리우스 타키투스, 연대기, , 23장 23:4)

• Alexandrea est fere tota suffossa specusque habet a Nilo pertinentis, quibus aqua in privatas domos inducitur, quae paulatim spatio temporis liquescit ac subsidit. (CAESAR, INCERTI AVCTORIS DE BELLO ALEXANDRINO 5:1)

  (카이사르, 알렉산드리아 전기 5:1)

• qui distributi munitionum tuendarum causa vicatim ex privatis aedificiis specubus ac puteis extracta aqua utebantur. (CAESAR, INCERTI AVCTORIS DE BELLO ALEXANDRINO 5:7)

  (카이사르, 알렉산드리아 전기 5:7)

• Intersaeptis enim specubus atque omnibus urbis partibus exclusis quae ab ipso tenebantur, aquae magnam vim ex mari rotis ac machinationibus exprimere contendit: (CAESAR, INCERTI AVCTORIS DE BELLO ALEXANDRINO 6:2)

  (카이사르, 알렉산드리아 전기 6:2)

유의어 사전

1. Specus and caverna are cavities, whether under-ground, or on a level with the ground,—consequently, a species of antrum; spelunca and spelæum, cavities with a perpendicular opening, leading up into a mountain; scrobs, fovea, and favissa, pits with an horizontal opening, leading down into the earth. 2. Specus (σπέος) is a gap, with a longish opening; caverna (from κύαρ) a hole, with a round opening. 3. Spelunca (σπήλυγξ) is a cavity, in a merely physical relation, with reference to its darkness and dreadfulness; antrum (ἄντρον) a grotto, as a beautiful object, with reference to its romantic appearance and cooling temperature; lastly, spelæum (σπήλαιον) is used only by the poets, as the abode and lurking-hole of wild beasts. 4. Fovea (from φύειν) is a pit meant to remain open, or only covered in order to keep in or to catch a wild beast; scrobs, a pit meant to be filled up again, and only dug, in order to bury something, the root of a tree, for instance, or a corpse. (v. 140.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein