Alemanniとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin Alemannī (“the confederation of German tribes related to Suebi who lived near the upper reaches of Danube”).

名詞

Alemanni pl (plural only)

1. A group of Germanic peoples living between the Rhine, Main, and Danube Rivers from the third to the sixth century.
   • 1846, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire‎, page 271:

     The hasty army of volunteers gradually coalesced into a great and permanent nation, and, as it was composed from so many different tribes, assumed the name of Alemanni, or Allmen ; to denote at once their various lineage, and their common bravery.

   • 2011 September 15, “Alemanni”, in Encyclopædia Britannica‎:

     The Alemanni were originally composed of fragments of several Germanic peoples, and they remained a loosely knit confederation of tribes in the Suebi group (see Suebi).

2. Those individuals descended from one of the Alemanni tribes.
   • 2011 October 1, Richard J. Gehman, “Reflections on our Germanic Mennonite Heritage”, in Bible Fellowship Church Online History Center‎, archived from the original on 16 December 2020:

     On the basis of their location along the Rhine River during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, I have concluded that my ancestors were Alemanni and Franks, though lacking in ethnic purity.

形容詞

Alemanni (not comparable)

1. Of or related to the Alemanni peoples.
   • 2007, Michael Curtis Ford, Gods and Legions: A Novel of the Roman Empire, page 109:

     This time, however, his troops faced the full brunt of an Alemanni force that attacked them on the way.

2. Of or related to the Alemannic language or dialects.

参考

• Alemannic
• Suebi
• Swabian
• Swabish

アナグラム

• mainlane, melanian

名詞

Alemannī

1. inflection of Alemannus:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive singular

参照

• “Alemanni”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Alemanni in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.