Belgaeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin Belgae, an Iron-Age European group of tribes located between the rivers Seine and Rhine.

名詞

Belgae pl (plural only)

1. (historical) A group of tribes living in northern Gaul, between the English Channel and the west bank of the Rhine, from at least the 3rd century BC.

参照

• Pokorny, Julius, "The pre-Celtic inhabitants of Ireland", Celtic, DIAS, 1960 (reprint 1983), p. 231.

アナグラム

• Beagle, beagle, glebae

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈbɛɫ.ɡae̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈbɛl̠ʲ.d͡ʒe]

固有名詞

Belgae m pl (genitive Belgārum); first declension

1. Belgae; a group of tribes of northern Gaul
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.1:

     Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquītānī, tertiam quī ipsōrum linguā Celtae, nostrā Gallī appellantur.

     Gaul, taken as a whole, is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in our language the Gauls, the third.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

Usually plural, but the singular "Belga" is found in Lucan's Bellum Civile (1.426).

派生語

• belgicus

参照

• “Belgae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Belgae”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Belgae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers