Title: | Adjectivul niger în opera vergiliană |
Author: | Maria Subi |
Publication: | Analele Universității de Vest din Timișoara. Seria Științe Filologice, LI-LII, p. 81 |
p-ISSN: | 1224-967X |
Publisher: | Editura Universității de Vest |
Place: | Timișoara |
Year: | 2013-2014 |
Abstract: | [The Adjective Niger in Virgil’s Work] The adjective niger (3) ‘black, wretched, sinister, fatal’ occupies an important place amongst Virgilian chromatic terms, as its dark tone harmonizes with the atmosphere of melancholy and sorrow found in the work of the Latin poet. Used in opposition to albus(3) – the white of light, the white of day – niger(3) symbolically relates to the black of night (gloomy, ominous) or to the vast Hell, equally dominated by the same dark colour. An attribute of the night and of Hades, niger takes on a markedly negative value which is noticeable in all its contextual uses (e.g. its association with other elements, such as the dust, the darkness of woods, the clouds or the storm), just as black always remains a symbol of ugliness, destruction and evil. |
Key words: | niger (3), black, dark, night, hell, clouds, storm |
Language: | Romanian |
Links: | pdf html |
Citations to this publication: 1
1 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 59, 2016). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2016 | LR, LXVI (2), 123-269 | 2017 | pdf html |
References in this publication: 2
1 | Maria Subi | Un termen cromatic vergilian: ater | Frățilă, 375 | 2012 | |
165 | Alfred Ernout, Antoine Meillet | Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine Histoire des mots | Klincksieck | 1932; 1939; 1951; 2001 |
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