뜻

1. 예언가, 무당, 점쟁이
2. 시인, 여류 시인, 음유시인
3. 신탁, 지성소

1. seer, soothsayer, prophet
2. poet, poetess
3. oracle

예문

• Deinde cur nulla futura canitis, si vates estis? (Augustine, Saint, Epistulae. Selections., 6. (A. D. 390 Epist. XVII) 4:6)

  (아우구스티누스, 편지들, 4:6)

• Erat mons ligneus ad instar incliti montis illius quem vates Homerus Idaeum cecinit, sublimi instructus fabrica, consitus virectis et vivis arboribus, summo cacumine de manibus fabri fonte manante, fluviales aquas eliquans. (Apuleius, Metamorphoses, book 10 30:1)

  (아풀레이우스, 변신, 10권 30:1)

• Quam autem sit pulchrum, exigua haec spernentem et minima, ad ascensus verae gloriae tendere longos et arduos, ut memorat vates Ascraeus, Censorius Cato monstravit. (Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum libri qui supersunt, Liber XIV, chapter 6 8:2)

  (암미아누스 마르켈리누스, 사건 연대기, , 6장 8:2)

• Proinde quoniam - ut Mantuanus vates praedixit excelsus - maius opus moveo maiorque mihi rerum nascitur ordo, Galliarum tractus et situm ostendere puto nunc tempestivum, ne inter procinctus ardentes, proeliorumque varios casus, ignota quibusdam expediens imitari videar desides nauticos, attrita lintea cum rudentibus, quae licuit parari securius, inter fluctus resarcire coactos et tempestates. (Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum libri qui supersunt, Liber XV, chapter 9 1:1)

  (암미아누스 마르켈리누스, 사건 연대기, , 9장 1:1)

• Dextram igitur inflexionem Bospori Thracii excipit Bithyniae litus, quam veteres dixere Mygdoniam, in qua Thynia et Mariandena sunt regiones et Amyci saevitia Bebryces exempti virtute Pollucis, remotaque statio, in qua volitantes minaciter harpyias Phineus vates horrebat; (Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum libri qui supersunt, Liber XXII: Julianus, chapter 8 14:1)

  (암미아누스 마르켈리누스, 사건 연대기, , 8장 14:1)

유의어 사전

1. Canere (from καναχεῖν) means, in the most general sense, to make music, voce, tibiis, fidibus, like μέλπειν; cantare, with vocal music, like ἀείδειν; psallere, with instrumental music, and indeed with string-instruments, like ψάλλειν. 2. Cantica and cantilenæ are only songs adapted for singing, in which, as in popular ballads, the words and melodies are inseparable, and serve to excite mirth and pleasure, in opp. to speech, and that which is spoken; and, indeed, canticum means a favorite piece, still in vogue; cantilena, a piece which, being generally known, has lost the charm of novelty, and is classed with old songs; whereas carmina and poemata are poems which may be sung, but the words of which claim value as a work of art, and serve religion or music as an art, in opp. to prose and real truth; carmina, indeed, were originally religious hymns, ἐπῳδαί, and, in a wider sense, poems of another sort, mostly, however, minor poems, and of a lyrical sort, like ᾠδαι; but poemata are the products of cultivated art, and extensive poems, mostly of the epic or tragic sort, like ποιήματα. The carmen (κάρω, κράζω) is the fruit of natural, but the poema of calm and self-conscious inspiration. 3. Poeta is a technical expression, and denotes a poet only as an artist; vates (ἠχέτης) is an old Latin and religious expression, and denotes a poet as a sacred person. Tac. Dial. 9. (v. 99.)

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