English Dictionary

Janus

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈd͡ʒeɪnəs/

固有名詞

ラテン文字 限定用法 比喩的用法

(Roman mythology) The god of doorways, gates and transitions, and of beginnings and endings, having two faces looking in opposite directions.

日本語の意味

ローマ神話に登場する神で、門や扉、転換期、始まりと終わりを司り、反対方向を向く二つの顔を持つ神として知られる

Janus stood at the threshold, his two faces turned toward the past and the future as Rome prepared for a new beginning.

門や関所、移り変わり、始まりと終わりを司るローマの神が敷居に立ち、二つの顔で過去と未来を見つめる中、ローマは新たな出発に備えた。

意味（1）

(Roman mythology) The god of doorways, gates and transitions, and of beginnings and endings, having two faces looking in opposite directions.

In the ages of victory, as often as the senate decreed some distant conquest, the consul denounced hostilities, by unbarring, in solemn pomp, the gates of the temple of Janus. Domestic war now rendered the admonition superfluous, and the ceremony was superseded by the establishment of a new religion. But the brazen temple of Janus was left standing in the forum; of a size sufficient only to contain the statue of the god, five cubits in height, of a human form, but with two faces, directed to the east and west.

意味（2）

(attributively) Used to indicate things with two faces (such as animals with diprosopus) or aspects; or made of two different materials; or having a two-way action.

意味（3）

(chemistry, attributively) Used to indicate an azo dye with a quaternary ammonium group, frequently with the diazo component being safranine.

Janus green B is a dye used widely in histology to stain cells for microscopic examination.

意味（4）

(figuratively) A two-faced person, a hypocrite.

The hypocrite; or, The modern Janus.

意味（5）

A moon of Saturn.

Heavily cratered and irregularly shaped, Janus orbits Saturn just beyond the F ring and only 50km (30 miles) farther away than its co-orbital moon, Epimetheus.